What is 1.04958 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.04958 as a fraction equals 104958/100000 or 52479/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.04958 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.04958 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!

1.04958/1

  =  

1.04958 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

104958/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 104958 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 104958 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  14  17  18  21  34  42  49  51  63  98  102  119  126  147  153  238  294  306  343  357  441  686  714  833  882  1029  1071  1666  2058  2142  2499  3087  4998  5831  6174  7497  11662  14994  17493  34986  52479  104958 
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 104958 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

104958/100000

  =  

104958 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

52479/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.04958 as a fraction.