What is 8.37624 as a fraction?

Answer: 8.37624 as a fraction equals 837624/100000 or 104703/12500

Here is the solution for converting 8.37624 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 8.37624 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!

8.37624/1

  =  

8.37624 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

837624/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 837624 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 837624 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  17  24  34  51  68  102  136  204  408  2053  4106  6159  8212  12318  16424  24636  34901  49272  69802  104703  139604  209406  279208  418812  837624 
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 837624 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

837624/100000

  =  

837624 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

104703/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 8.37624 as a fraction.