What is 1.08675 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.08675 as a fraction equals 108675/100000 or 4347/4000

Here is the solution for converting 1.08675 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.08675 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!

1.08675/1

  =  

1.08675 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

108675/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 108675 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 108675 are: 1  3  5  7  9  15  21  23  25  27  35  45  63  69  75  105  115  135  161  175  189  207  225  315  345  483  525  575  621  675  805  945  1035  1449  1575  1725  2415  3105  4025  4347  4725  5175  7245  12075  15525  21735  36225  108675 
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 108675 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 25

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.

108675/100000

  =  

108675 ÷ 25/100000 ÷ 25

  =  

4347/4000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.08675 as a fraction.