What is 0.63756 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 0.63756 into a fraction.

Answer: 0.63756 as a fraction equals 63756/100000 or 15939/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.63756 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.63756 as  
0.63756/1

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!
0.63756/1
  =  
0.63756 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
63756/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 63756 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 63756 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  11  12  14  18  21  22  23  28  33  36  42  44  46  63  66  69  77  84  92  99  126  132  138  154  161  198  207  231  252  253  276  308  322  396  414  462  483  506  644  693  759  828  924  966  1012  1386  1449  1518  1771  1932  2277  2772  2898  3036  3542  4554  5313  5796  7084  9108  10626  15939  21252  31878  63756 
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 63756 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.
63756/100000
  =  
63756 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4
  =  
15939/25000


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.63756 as a fraction.

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