What is 1.16844 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.16844 as a fraction equals 116844/100000 or 29211/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.16844 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.16844 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!

1.16844/1

  =  

1.16844 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

116844/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 116844 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 116844 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  13  14  21  26  28  39  42  52  78  84  91  107  156  182  214  273  321  364  428  546  642  749  1092  1284  1391  1498  2247  2782  2996  4173  4494  5564  8346  8988  9737  16692  19474  29211  38948  58422  116844 
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 116844 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.

116844/100000

  =  

116844 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

29211/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.16844 as a fraction.