What is 0.80808 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 0.80808 into a fraction.

Answer: 0.80808 as a fraction equals 80808/100000 or 10101/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.80808 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.80808 as  
0.80808/1

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!
0.80808/1
  =  
0.80808 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
80808/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 80808 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 80808 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  13  14  21  24  26  28  37  39  42  52  56  74  78  84  91  104  111  148  156  168  182  222  259  273  296  312  364  444  481  518  546  728  777  888  962  1036  1092  1443  1554  1924  2072  2184  2886  3108  3367  3848  5772  6216  6734  10101  11544  13468  20202  26936  40404  80808 
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 80808 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.
80808/100000
  =  
80808 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8
  =  
10101/12500


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.80808 as a fraction.

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