What is 1.04256 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.04256 as a fraction equals 104256/100000 or 3258/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.04256 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.04256 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!

1.04256/1

  =  

1.04256 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

104256/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 104256 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 104256 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  32  36  48  64  72  96  144  181  192  288  362  543  576  724  1086  1448  1629  2172  2896  3258  4344  5792  6516  8688  11584  13032  17376  26064  34752  52128  104256 
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 104256 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.

104256/100000

  =  

104256 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

3258/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.04256 as a fraction.