What is 0.75712 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.75712 as a fraction equals 75712/100000 or 2366/3125

Here is the solution for converting 0.75712 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.75712 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!

0.75712/1

  =  

0.75712 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

75712/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 75712 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 75712 are: 1  2  4  7  8  13  14  16  26  28  32  52  56  64  91  104  112  169  182  208  224  338  364  416  448  676  728  832  1183  1352  1456  2366  2704  2912  4732  5408  5824  9464  10816  18928  37856  75712 
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 75712 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.

75712/100000

  =  

75712 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

2366/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.75712 as a fraction.