What is 1.05732 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.05732 as a fraction equals 105732/100000 or 26433/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.05732 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.05732 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!

1.05732/1

  =  

1.05732 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

105732/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 105732 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 105732 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  11  12  18  22  27  33  36  44  54  66  89  99  108  132  178  198  267  297  356  396  534  594  801  979  1068  1188  1602  1958  2403  2937  3204  3916  4806  5874  8811  9612  11748  17622  26433  35244  52866  105732 
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 105732 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.

105732/100000

  =  

105732 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

26433/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.05732 as a fraction.