What is 7.26852 as a fraction?

Answer: 7.26852 as a fraction equals 726852/100000 or 181713/25000

Here is the solution for converting 7.26852 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 7.26852 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!

7.26852/1

  =  

7.26852 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

726852/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 726852 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 726852 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  14  17  21  28  34  42  51  68  84  102  119  204  238  357  476  509  714  1018  1428  1527  2036  3054  3563  6108  7126  8653  10689  14252  17306  21378  25959  34612  42756  51918  60571  103836  121142  181713  242284  363426  726852 
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 726852 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.

726852/100000

  =  

726852 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

181713/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 7.26852 as a fraction.