What is 1.12632 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.12632 as a fraction equals 112632/100000 or 14079/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.12632 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.12632 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!

1.12632/1

  =  

1.12632 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

112632/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 112632 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 112632 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  13  19  24  26  38  39  52  57  76  78  104  114  152  156  228  247  312  361  456  494  722  741  988  1083  1444  1482  1976  2166  2888  2964  4332  4693  5928  8664  9386  14079  18772  28158  37544  56316  112632 
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 112632 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.

112632/100000

  =  

112632 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

14079/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.12632 as a fraction.