What is 7.13636 as a fraction?

Answer: 7.13636 as a fraction equals 713636/100000 or 178409/25000

Here is the solution for converting 7.13636 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 7.13636 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!

7.13636/1

  =  

7.13636 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

713636/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 713636 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 713636 are: 1  2  4  7  11  14  22  28  44  49  77  98  154  196  308  331  539  662  1078  1324  2156  2317  3641  4634  7282  9268  14564  16219  25487  32438  50974  64876  101948  178409  356818  713636 
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 713636 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.

713636/100000

  =  

713636 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

178409/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 7.13636 as a fraction.