What is 0.73848 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.73848 as a fraction equals 73848/100000 or 9231/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.73848 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.73848 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!

0.73848/1

  =  

0.73848 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

73848/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 73848 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 73848 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  17  24  34  51  68  102  136  181  204  362  408  543  724  1086  1448  2172  3077  4344  6154  9231  12308  18462  24616  36924  73848 
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 73848 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.

73848/100000

  =  

73848 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

9231/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.73848 as a fraction.