What is 0.81168 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.81168 as a fraction equals 81168/100000 or 5073/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.81168 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.81168 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!

0.81168/1

  =  

0.81168 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

81168/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 81168 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 81168 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  19  24  38  48  57  76  89  114  152  178  228  267  304  356  456  534  712  912  1068  1424  1691  2136  3382  4272  5073  6764  10146  13528  20292  27056  40584  81168 
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 81168 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

81168/100000

  =  

81168 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

5073/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.81168 as a fraction.