What is 1.15236 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.15236 as a fraction equals 115236/100000 or 28809/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.15236 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.15236 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!

1.15236/1

  =  

1.15236 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

115236/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 115236 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 115236 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  11  12  18  22  27  33  36  44  54  66  97  99  108  132  194  198  291  297  388  396  582  594  873  1067  1164  1188  1746  2134  2619  3201  3492  4268  5238  6402  9603  10476  12804  19206  28809  38412  57618  115236 
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 115236 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.

115236/100000

  =  

115236 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

28809/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.15236 as a fraction.