What is 8.48148 as a fraction?

Answer: 8.48148 as a fraction equals 848148/100000 or 212037/25000

Here is the solution for converting 8.48148 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 8.48148 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!

8.48148/1

  =  

8.48148 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

848148/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 848148 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 848148 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  14  21  23  28  42  46  69  84  92  138  161  276  322  439  483  644  878  966  1317  1756  1932  2634  3073  5268  6146  9219  10097  12292  18438  20194  30291  36876  40388  60582  70679  121164  141358  212037  282716  424074  848148 
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 848148 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.

848148/100000

  =  

848148 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

212037/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 8.48148 as a fraction.