What is 6.47748 as a fraction?

Answer: 6.47748 as a fraction equals 647748/100000 or 161937/25000

Here is the solution for converting 6.47748 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 6.47748 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!

6.47748/1

  =  

6.47748 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

647748/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 647748 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 647748 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  19  36  38  57  76  114  171  228  342  684  947  1894  2841  3788  5682  8523  11364  17046  17993  34092  35986  53979  71972  107958  161937  215916  323874  647748 
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 647748 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.

647748/100000

  =  

647748 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

161937/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 6.47748 as a fraction.