What is 0.84688 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 0.84688 into a fraction.

Answer: 0.84688 as a fraction equals 84688/100000 or 5293/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.84688 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.84688 as  
0.84688/1

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!
0.84688/1
  =  
0.84688 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
84688/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 84688 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 84688 are: 1  2  4  8  16  67  79  134  158  268  316  536  632  1072  1264  5293  10586  21172  42344  84688 
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 84688 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.
84688/100000
  =  
84688 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16
  =  
5293/6250


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.84688 as a fraction.

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