What is 0.89496 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.89496 as a fraction equals 89496/100000 or 11187/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.89496 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.89496 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!

0.89496/1

  =  

0.89496 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

89496/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 89496 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 89496 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  18  22  24  33  36  44  66  72  88  99  113  132  198  226  264  339  396  452  678  792  904  1017  1243  1356  2034  2486  2712  3729  4068  4972  7458  8136  9944  11187  14916  22374  29832  44748  89496 
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 89496 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.

89496/100000

  =  

89496 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

11187/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.89496 as a fraction.