What is 1.16088 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.16088 as a fraction equals 116088/100000 or 14511/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.16088 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.16088 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!

1.16088/1

  =  

1.16088 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

116088/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 116088 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 116088 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  21  24  28  42  56  84  168  691  1382  2073  2764  4146  4837  5528  8292  9674  14511  16584  19348  29022  38696  58044  116088 
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 116088 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.

116088/100000

  =  

116088 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

14511/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.16088 as a fraction.