What is 1.12288 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.12288 as a fraction equals 112288/100000 or 3509/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.12288 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.12288 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!

1.12288/1

  =  

1.12288 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

112288/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 112288 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 112288 are: 1  2  4  8  11  16  22  29  32  44  58  88  116  121  176  232  242  319  352  464  484  638  928  968  1276  1936  2552  3509  3872  5104  7018  10208  14036  28072  56144  112288 
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 112288 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

112288/100000

  =  

112288 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

3509/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.12288 as a fraction.