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What is 0.00064 as a fraction?

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Here is the answer:
Here's how to convert 0.00064 to a fraction...

There is not much that can be done to figure out how to write 0.00064 as a fraction, except to literally use what the decimal portion of your number, the .00064 , means.Since there are 6 digits in 00064 , the very last digit is the "1000000th" decimal place.So we can just say that .00064 is the same as 00064 /1000000.The fraction is not reduced to lowest terms. We can reduce this fraction to lowest
terms by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 64.
Why divide by 64? 64 is the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD)
or Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of the numbers 64 and 1e+06.
So, this fraction reduced to lowest terms is
So your final answer is: 0.00064 can be written as the fraction
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