What is 6.77236 as a fraction?

Answer: 6.77236 as a fraction equals 677236/100000 or 169309/25000

Here is the solution for converting 6.77236 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 6.77236 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!

6.77236/1

  =  

6.77236 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

677236/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 677236 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 677236 are: 1  2  4  7  14  19  28  38  67  76  133  134  266  268  361  469  532  722  938  1273  1444  1876  2527  2546  5054  5092  8911  10108  17822  24187  35644  48374  96748  169309  338618  677236 
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 677236 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.

677236/100000

  =  

677236 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

169309/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 6.77236 as a fraction.