What is 0.83772 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.83772 as a fraction equals 83772/100000 or 20943/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.83772 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.83772 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!

0.83772/1

  =  

0.83772 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

83772/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 83772 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 83772 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  13  18  26  36  39  52  78  117  156  179  234  358  468  537  716  1074  1611  2148  2327  3222  4654  6444  6981  9308  13962  20943  27924  41886  83772 
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 83772 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

83772/100000

  =  

83772 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

20943/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.83772 as a fraction.