What is 1.07256 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.07256 as a fraction equals 107256/100000 or 13407/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.07256 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.07256 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!

1.07256/1

  =  

1.07256 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

107256/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 107256 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 107256 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  24  41  82  109  123  164  218  246  327  328  436  492  654  872  984  1308  2616  4469  8938  13407  17876  26814  35752  53628  107256 
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 107256 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

107256/100000

  =  

107256 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

13407/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.07256 as a fraction.