What is 6.92982 as a fraction?

Answer: 6.92982 as a fraction equals 692982/100000 or 346491/50000

Here is the solution for converting 6.92982 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 6.92982 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!

6.92982/1

  =  

6.92982 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

692982/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 692982 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 692982 are: 1  2  3  6  9  18  27  41  54  82  123  246  313  369  626  738  939  1107  1878  2214  2817  5634  8451  12833  16902  25666  38499  76998  115497  230994  346491  692982 
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 692982 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.

692982/100000

  =  

692982 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

346491/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 6.92982 as a fraction.