What is 1.04304 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.04304 as a fraction equals 104304/100000 or 6519/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.04304 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.04304 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!

1.04304/1

  =  

1.04304 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

104304/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 104304 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 104304 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  41  48  53  82  106  123  159  164  212  246  318  328  424  492  636  656  848  984  1272  1968  2173  2544  4346  6519  8692  13038  17384  26076  34768  52152  104304 
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 104304 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

104304/100000

  =  

104304 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

6519/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.04304 as a fraction.