What is 0.99792 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.99792 as a fraction equals 99792/100000 or 6237/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.99792 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.99792 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!

0.99792/1

  =  

0.99792 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

99792/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 99792 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 99792 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  9  11  12  14  16  18  21  22  24  27  28  33  36  42  44  48  54  56  63  66  72  77  81  84  88  99  108  112  126  132  144  154  162  168  176  189  198  216  231  252  264  297  308  324  336  378  396  432  462  504  528  567  594  616  648  693  756  792  891  924  1008  1134  1188  1232  1296  1386  1512  1584  1782  1848  2079  2268  2376  2772  3024  3564  3696  4158  4536  4752  5544  6237  7128  8316  9072  11088  12474  14256  16632  24948  33264  49896  99792 
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 99792 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.

99792/100000

  =  

99792 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

6237/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.99792 as a fraction.