Identify Decimal Places: To express the decimal 0.8342 as a fraction, we first identify how many decimal places there are to determine the denominator. There are four decimal places, so the denominator will be 10,000. 0.8342=10,0008342
Simplify Fraction with GCD: Next, we simplify the fraction by finding the greatest common divisor (GCD) of the numerator and the denominator and then dividing both by that number. The GCD of 8342 and 10,000 is 2. 8342÷2=417110,000÷2=5000
Final Simplified Fraction: After simplifying, we get the fraction 50004171, which cannot be simplified further as there is no common divisor greater than 1 for 4171 and 5000.
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