What is 7.68992 as a fraction?

Answer: 7.68992 as a fraction equals 768992/100000 or 24031/3125

Here is the solution for converting 7.68992 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 7.68992 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!

7.68992/1

  =  

7.68992 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

768992/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 768992 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 768992 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  16  28  32  56  112  224  3433  6866  13732  24031  27464  48062  54928  96124  109856  192248  384496  768992 
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 768992 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

768992/100000

  =  

768992 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

24031/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 7.68992 as a fraction.