What is 0.26928 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.26928 as a fraction equals 26928/100000 or 1683/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.26928 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.26928 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!

0.26928/1

  =  

0.26928 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

26928/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 26928 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 26928 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  16  17  18  22  24  33  34  36  44  48  51  66  68  72  88  99  102  132  136  144  153  176  187  198  204  264  272  306  374  396  408  528  561  612  748  792  816  1122  1224  1496  1584  1683  2244  2448  2992  3366  4488  6732  8976  13464  26928 
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 26928 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.

26928/100000

  =  

26928 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

1683/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.26928 as a fraction.