What is 0.72618 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.72618 as a fraction equals 72618/100000 or 36309/50000

Here is the solution for converting 0.72618 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.72618 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!

0.72618/1

  =  

0.72618 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

72618/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 72618 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 72618 are: 1  2  3  6  7  13  14  19  21  26  38  39  42  49  57  78  91  98  114  133  147  182  247  266  273  294  399  494  546  637  741  798  931  1274  1482  1729  1862  1911  2793  3458  3822  5187  5586  10374  12103  24206  36309  72618 
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 72618 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

72618/100000

  =  

72618 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

36309/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.72618 as a fraction.