What is 0.84336 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.84336 as a fraction equals 84336/100000 or 5271/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.84336 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.84336 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!

0.84336/1

  =  

0.84336 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

84336/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 84336 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 84336 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  16  21  24  28  42  48  56  84  112  168  251  336  502  753  1004  1506  1757  2008  3012  3514  4016  5271  6024  7028  10542  12048  14056  21084  28112  42168  84336 
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 84336 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.

84336/100000

  =  

84336 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

5271/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.84336 as a fraction.