What is 6.55752 as a fraction?

Answer: 6.55752 as a fraction equals 655752/100000 or 81969/12500

Here is the solution for converting 6.55752 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 6.55752 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!

6.55752/1

  =  

6.55752 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

655752/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 655752 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 655752 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  24  89  178  267  307  356  534  614  712  921  1068  1228  1842  2136  2456  3684  7368  27323  54646  81969  109292  163938  218584  327876  655752 
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 655752 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

655752/100000

  =  

655752 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

81969/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 6.55752 as a fraction.