What is 1.16032 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.16032 as a fraction equals 116032/100000 or 3626/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.16032 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.16032 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!

1.16032/1

  =  

1.16032 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

116032/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 116032 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 116032 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  16  28  32  37  49  56  64  74  98  112  148  196  224  259  296  392  448  518  592  784  1036  1184  1568  1813  2072  2368  3136  3626  4144  7252  8288  14504  16576  29008  58016  116032 
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 116032 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.

116032/100000

  =  

116032 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

3626/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.16032 as a fraction.