What is 1.17396 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.17396 as a fraction equals 117396/100000 or 29349/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.17396 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.17396 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!

1.17396/1

  =  

1.17396 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

117396/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 117396 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 117396 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  27  36  54  108  1087  2174  3261  4348  6522  9783  13044  19566  29349  39132  58698  117396 
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 117396 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.

117396/100000

  =  

117396 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

29349/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.17396 as a fraction.