What is 0.73968 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.73968 as a fraction equals 73968/100000 or 4623/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.73968 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.73968 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!

0.73968/1

  =  

0.73968 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

73968/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 73968 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 73968 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  23  24  46  48  67  69  92  134  138  184  201  268  276  368  402  536  552  804  1072  1104  1541  1608  3082  3216  4623  6164  9246  12328  18492  24656  36984  73968 
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 73968 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.

73968/100000

  =  

73968 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

4623/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.73968 as a fraction.