What is 0.70488 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.70488 as a fraction equals 70488/100000 or 8811/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.70488 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.70488 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!

0.70488/1

  =  

0.70488 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

70488/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 70488 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 70488 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  18  22  24  33  36  44  66  72  88  89  99  132  178  198  264  267  356  396  534  712  792  801  979  1068  1602  1958  2136  2937  3204  3916  5874  6408  7832  8811  11748  17622  23496  35244  70488 
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 70488 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.

70488/100000

  =  

70488 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

8811/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.70488 as a fraction.