Question

How do you change $0.72$ into a fraction?

Answer 1

Conversion of decimal into a fraction:

Decimal to fraction conversion is a method of writing decimal values in the form of fraction values and vice-versa.

Converting $0.72$ into fraction.

The number $0.72$ is same as $\frac{72}{100}$ as it can be view $1.00$ as $\frac{1}{1}$.

Let,

$\Rightarrow$ $x=0.72$

$\Rightarrow$ $10x=7.2$

$\Rightarrow$ $100x=72$

$\Rightarrow$ $1000x=720$

So,

$\Rightarrow$ $1000x-100x=720-72$

$\Rightarrow$ $900x=648$

$\Rightarrow$ $x=\frac{648}{900}$

$\Rightarrow$ $x=\frac{18}{25}$

Hence, the value of $0.72$ into fraction is $\frac{18}{25}$.