What is 1.08756 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.08756 as a fraction equals 108756/100000 or 27189/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.08756 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.08756 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!

1.08756/1

  =  

1.08756 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

108756/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 108756 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 108756 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  19  27  36  38  53  54  57  76  106  108  114  159  171  212  228  318  342  477  513  636  684  954  1007  1026  1431  1908  2014  2052  2862  3021  4028  5724  6042  9063  12084  18126  27189  36252  54378  108756 
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 108756 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.

108756/100000

  =  

108756 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

27189/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.08756 as a fraction.