What is 1.06596 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.06596 as a fraction equals 106596/100000 or 26649/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.06596 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.06596 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!

1.06596/1

  =  

1.06596 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

106596/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 106596 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 106596 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  27  28  36  42  47  54  63  81  84  94  108  126  141  162  188  189  252  282  324  329  378  423  564  567  658  756  846  987  1134  1269  1316  1692  1974  2268  2538  2961  3807  3948  5076  5922  7614  8883  11844  15228  17766  26649  35532  53298  106596 
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 106596 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.

106596/100000

  =  

106596 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

26649/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.06596 as a fraction.