What is 1.00968 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.00968 as a fraction equals 100968/100000 or 12621/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.00968 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.00968 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!

1.00968/1

  =  

1.00968 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

100968/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 100968 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 100968 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  21  24  28  42  56  84  168  601  1202  1803  2404  3606  4207  4808  7212  8414  12621  14424  16828  25242  33656  50484  100968 
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 100968 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

100968/100000

  =  

100968 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

12621/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.00968 as a fraction.