Solve 85.79*10%

$$85.79 \times 10 \%$$

Evaluate

$$8.579$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{10}{100} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 10.

$$85.79\times \frac{1}{10}$$

Convert decimal number 85.79 to fraction \frac{8579}{100}.

$$\frac{8579}{100}\times \frac{1}{10}$$

Multiply \frac{8579}{100} times \frac{1}{10} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{8579\times 1}{100\times 10}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{8579\times 1}{100\times 10}.

$$\frac{8579}{1000}$$

Factor

$$\frac{23 \cdot 373}{2 ^ {3} \cdot 5 ^ {3}} = 8\frac{579}{1000} = 8.579$$