What is 0.74052 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.74052 as a fraction equals 74052/100000 or 18513/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.74052 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.74052 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!

0.74052/1

  =  

0.74052 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

74052/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 74052 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 74052 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  11  12  17  18  22  33  34  36  44  51  66  68  99  102  121  132  153  187  198  204  242  306  363  374  396  484  561  612  726  748  1089  1122  1452  1683  2057  2178  2244  3366  4114  4356  6171  6732  8228  12342  18513  24684  37026  74052 
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 74052 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.

74052/100000

  =  

74052 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

18513/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.74052 as a fraction.