What is 0.67536 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 0.67536 into a fraction.

Answer: 0.67536 as a fraction equals 67536/100000 or 4221/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.67536 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.67536 as  
0.67536/1

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!
0.67536/1
  =  
0.67536 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
67536/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 67536 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 67536 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  9  12  14  16  18  21  24  28  36  42  48  56  63  67  72  84  112  126  134  144  168  201  252  268  336  402  469  504  536  603  804  938  1008  1072  1206  1407  1608  1876  2412  2814  3216  3752  4221  4824  5628  7504  8442  9648  11256  16884  22512  33768  67536 
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 67536 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.
67536/100000
  =  
67536 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16
  =  
4221/6250


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.67536 as a fraction.

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