What is 0.25272 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.25272 as a fraction equals 25272/100000 or 3159/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.25272 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.25272 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!

0.25272/1

  =  

0.25272 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

25272/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 25272 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 25272 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  13  18  24  26  27  36  39  52  54  72  78  81  104  108  117  156  162  216  234  243  312  324  351  468  486  648  702  936  972  1053  1404  1944  2106  2808  3159  4212  6318  8424  12636  25272 
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 25272 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.

25272/100000

  =  

25272 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

3159/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.25272 as a fraction.