What is 0.82128 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.82128 as a fraction equals 82128/100000 or 5133/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.82128 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.82128 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!

0.82128/1

  =  

0.82128 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

82128/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 82128 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 82128 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  29  48  58  59  87  116  118  174  177  232  236  348  354  464  472  696  708  944  1392  1416  1711  2832  3422  5133  6844  10266  13688  20532  27376  41064  82128 
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 82128 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.

82128/100000

  =  

82128 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

5133/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.82128 as a fraction.