What is 0.63492 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.63492 as a fraction equals 63492/100000 or 15873/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.63492 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.63492 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!

0.63492/1

  =  

0.63492 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

63492/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 63492 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 63492 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  13  22  26  33  37  39  44  52  66  74  78  111  132  143  148  156  222  286  407  429  444  481  572  814  858  962  1221  1443  1628  1716  1924  2442  2886  4884  5291  5772  10582  15873  21164  31746  63492 
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 63492 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.

63492/100000

  =  

63492 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

15873/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.63492 as a fraction.