What is 0.68992 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.68992 as a fraction equals 68992/100000 or 2156/3125

Here is the solution for converting 0.68992 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.68992 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!

0.68992/1

  =  

0.68992 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

68992/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 68992 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 68992 are: 1  2  4  7  8  11  14  16  22  28  32  44  49  56  64  77  88  98  112  128  154  176  196  224  308  352  392  448  539  616  704  784  896  1078  1232  1408  1568  2156  2464  3136  4312  4928  6272  8624  9856  17248  34496  68992 
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 68992 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

68992/100000

  =  

68992 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

2156/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.68992 as a fraction.