What is 0.96012 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 0.96012 into a fraction.

Answer: 0.96012 as a fraction equals 96012/100000 or 24003/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.96012 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.96012 as  
0.96012/1

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!
0.96012/1
  =  
0.96012 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
96012/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 96012 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 96012 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  27  28  36  42  54  63  84  108  126  127  189  252  254  378  381  508  756  762  889  1143  1524  1778  2286  2667  3429  3556  4572  5334  6858  8001  10668  13716  16002  24003  32004  48006  96012 
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 96012 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.
96012/100000
  =  
96012 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4
  =  
24003/25000


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.96012 as a fraction.

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