What is 0.96696 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.96696 as a fraction equals 96696/100000 or 12087/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.96696 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.96696 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!

0.96696/1

  =  

0.96696 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

96696/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 96696 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 96696 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  17  18  24  34  36  51  68  72  79  102  136  153  158  204  237  306  316  408  474  612  632  711  948  1224  1343  1422  1896  2686  2844  4029  5372  5688  8058  10744  12087  16116  24174  32232  48348  96696 
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 96696 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.

96696/100000

  =  

96696 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

12087/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.96696 as a fraction.