What is 1.03812 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.03812 as a fraction equals 103812/100000 or 25953/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.03812 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.03812 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!

1.03812/1

  =  

1.03812 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

103812/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 103812 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 103812 are: 1  2  3  4  6  12  41  82  123  164  211  246  422  492  633  844  1266  2532  8651  17302  25953  34604  51906  103812 
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 103812 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

103812/100000

  =  

103812 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

25953/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.03812 as a fraction.