What is 7.20588 as a fraction?

Answer: 7.20588 as a fraction equals 720588/100000 or 180147/25000

Here is the solution for converting 7.20588 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 7.20588 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!

7.20588/1

  =  

7.20588 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

720588/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 720588 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 720588 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  33  44  53  66  103  106  132  159  206  212  309  318  412  583  618  636  1133  1166  1236  1749  2266  2332  3399  3498  4532  5459  6798  6996  10918  13596  16377  21836  32754  60049  65508  120098  180147  240196  360294  720588 
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 720588 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.

720588/100000

  =  

720588 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

180147/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 7.20588 as a fraction.