What is 0.20944 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.20944 as a fraction equals 20944/100000 or 1309/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.20944 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.20944 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!

0.20944/1

  =  

0.20944 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

20944/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 20944 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 20944 are: 1  2  4  7  8  11  14  16  17  22  28  34  44  56  68  77  88  112  119  136  154  176  187  238  272  308  374  476  616  748  952  1232  1309  1496  1904  2618  2992  5236  10472  20944 
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 20944 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

20944/100000

  =  

20944 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

1309/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.20944 as a fraction.