What is 1.16522 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.16522 as a fraction equals 116522/100000 or 58261/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.16522 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.16522 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!

1.16522/1

  =  

1.16522 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

116522/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 116522 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 116522 are: 1  2  7  14  29  41  49  58  82  98  203  287  406  574  1189  1421  2009  2378  2842  4018  8323  16646  58261  116522 
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 116522 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

116522/100000

  =  

116522 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

58261/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.16522 as a fraction.