What is 6.24138 as a fraction?

Answer: 6.24138 as a fraction equals 624138/100000 or 312069/50000

Here is the solution for converting 6.24138 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 6.24138 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!

6.24138/1

  =  

6.24138 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

624138/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 624138 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 624138 are: 1  2  3  6  17  29  34  51  58  87  102  174  211  422  493  633  986  1266  1479  2958  3587  6119  7174  10761  12238  18357  21522  36714  104023  208046  312069  624138 
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 624138 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

624138/100000

  =  

624138 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

312069/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 6.24138 as a fraction.