What is 0.78246 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.78246 as a fraction equals 78246/100000 or 39123/50000

Here is the solution for converting 0.78246 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.78246 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!

0.78246/1

  =  

0.78246 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

78246/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 78246 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 78246 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  14  18  21  23  27  42  46  54  63  69  81  126  138  161  162  189  207  243  322  378  414  483  486  567  621  966  1134  1242  1449  1701  1863  2898  3402  3726  4347  5589  8694  11178  13041  26082  39123  78246 
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 78246 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.

78246/100000

  =  

78246 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

39123/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.78246 as a fraction.