What is 0.18216 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.18216 as a fraction equals 18216/100000 or 2277/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.18216 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.18216 as  

Step 2:

Next, we multiply both the numerator and denominator by 10 for each digit after the decimal point. Remember the numerator is the top part of the fraction and the denominator is the bottom part!

0.18216/1

  =  

0.18216 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

18216/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 18216 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 18216 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  18  22  23  24  33  36  44  46  66  69  72  88  92  99  132  138  184  198  207  253  264  276  396  414  506  552  759  792  828  1012  1518  1656  2024  2277  3036  4554  6072  9108  18216 
The factors of 100000 are: 1  2  4  5  8  10  16  20  25  32  40  50  80  100  125  160  200  250  400  500  625  800  1000  1250  2000  2500  3125  4000  5000  6250  10000  12500  20000  25000  50000  100000 
So for 18216 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

Step 4:

For the last step we reduce the fraction. This just means writing the fraction in the simplest way. To do this we divide both the numerator and denominator by the GCF value we determined in step 3.

18216/100000

  =  

18216 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

2277/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.18216 as a fraction.