What is 1.12992 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.12992 as a fraction equals 112992/100000 or 3531/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.12992 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.12992 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!

1.12992/1

  =  

1.12992 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

112992/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 112992 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 112992 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  11  12  16  22  24  32  33  44  48  66  88  96  107  132  176  214  264  321  352  428  528  642  856  1056  1177  1284  1712  2354  2568  3424  3531  4708  5136  7062  9416  10272  14124  18832  28248  37664  56496  112992 
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 112992 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.

112992/100000

  =  

112992 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

3531/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.12992 as a fraction.