What is 0.79695 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.79695 as a fraction equals 79695/100000 or 15939/20000

Here is the solution for converting 0.79695 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.79695 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!

0.79695/1

  =  

0.79695 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

79695/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 79695 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 79695 are: 1  3  5  7  9  11  15  21  23  33  35  45  55  63  69  77  99  105  115  161  165  207  231  253  315  345  385  483  495  693  759  805  1035  1155  1265  1449  1771  2277  2415  3465  3795  5313  7245  8855  11385  15939  26565  79695 
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 79695 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

79695/100000

  =  

79695 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

15939/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.79695 as a fraction.