What is 0.84864 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.84864 as a fraction equals 84864/100000 or 2652/3125

Here is the solution for converting 0.84864 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.84864 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!

0.84864/1

  =  

0.84864 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

84864/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 84864 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 84864 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  13  16  17  24  26  32  34  39  48  51  52  64  68  78  96  102  104  128  136  156  192  204  208  221  272  312  384  408  416  442  544  624  663  816  832  884  1088  1248  1326  1632  1664  1768  2176  2496  2652  3264  3536  4992  5304  6528  7072  10608  14144  21216  28288  42432  84864 
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 84864 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

84864/100000

  =  

84864 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

2652/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.84864 as a fraction.