What is 0.72124 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.72124 as a fraction equals 72124/100000 or 18031/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.72124 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.72124 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!

0.72124/1

  =  

0.72124 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

72124/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 72124 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 72124 are: 1  2  4  13  19  26  38  52  73  76  146  247  292  494  949  988  1387  1898  2774  3796  5548  18031  36062  72124 
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 72124 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.

72124/100000

  =  

72124 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

18031/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.72124 as a fraction.