What is 1.00224 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.00224 as a fraction equals 100224/100000 or 3132/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.00224 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.00224 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!

1.00224/1

  =  

1.00224 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

100224/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 100224 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 100224 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  29  32  36  48  54  58  64  72  87  96  108  116  128  144  174  192  216  232  261  288  348  384  432  464  522  576  696  783  864  928  1044  1152  1392  1566  1728  1856  2088  2784  3132  3456  3712  4176  5568  6264  8352  11136  12528  16704  25056  33408  50112  100224 
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 100224 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

100224/100000

  =  

100224 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

3132/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.00224 as a fraction.