What is 0.87948 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.87948 as a fraction equals 87948/100000 or 21987/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.87948 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.87948 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!

0.87948/1

  =  

0.87948 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

87948/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 87948 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 87948 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  28  36  42  63  84  126  252  349  698  1047  1396  2094  2443  3141  4188  4886  6282  7329  9772  12564  14658  21987  29316  43974  87948 
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 87948 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.

87948/100000

  =  

87948 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

21987/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.87948 as a fraction.