What is 0.86394 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.86394 as a fraction equals 86394/100000 or 43197/50000

Here is the solution for converting 0.86394 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.86394 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!

0.86394/1

  =  

0.86394 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

86394/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 86394 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 86394 are: 1  2  3  6  7  11  14  17  21  22  33  34  42  51  66  77  102  119  121  154  187  231  238  242  357  363  374  462  561  714  726  847  1122  1309  1694  2057  2541  2618  3927  4114  5082  6171  7854  12342  14399  28798  43197  86394 
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 86394 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

86394/100000

  =  

86394 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

43197/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.86394 as a fraction.