What is 0.66424 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.66424 as a fraction equals 66424/100000 or 8303/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.66424 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.66424 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!

0.66424/1

  =  

0.66424 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

66424/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 66424 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 66424 are: 1  2  4  8  19  23  38  46  76  92  152  184  361  437  722  874  1444  1748  2888  3496  8303  16606  33212  66424 
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 66424 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.

66424/100000

  =  

66424 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

8303/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.66424 as a fraction.