What is 0.62568 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.62568 as a fraction equals 62568/100000 or 7821/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.62568 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.62568 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!

0.62568/1

  =  

0.62568 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

62568/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 62568 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 62568 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  18  22  24  33  36  44  66  72  79  88  99  132  158  198  237  264  316  396  474  632  711  792  869  948  1422  1738  1896  2607  2844  3476  5214  5688  6952  7821  10428  15642  20856  31284  62568 
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 62568 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.

62568/100000

  =  

62568 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

7821/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.62568 as a fraction.