What is 6.46296 as a fraction?

Answer: 6.46296 as a fraction equals 646296/100000 or 80787/12500

Here is the solution for converting 6.46296 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 6.46296 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!

6.46296/1

  =  

6.46296 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

646296/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 646296 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 646296 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  21  24  28  42  56  84  168  3847  7694  11541  15388  23082  26929  30776  46164  53858  80787  92328  107716  161574  215432  323148  646296 
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 646296 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.

646296/100000

  =  

646296 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

80787/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 6.46296 as a fraction.