What is 1.17576 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.17576 as a fraction equals 117576/100000 or 14697/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.17576 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.17576 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!

1.17576/1

  =  

1.17576 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

117576/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 117576 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 117576 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  23  24  36  46  69  71  72  92  138  142  184  207  213  276  284  414  426  552  568  639  828  852  1278  1633  1656  1704  2556  3266  4899  5112  6532  9798  13064  14697  19596  29394  39192  58788  117576 
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 117576 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.

117576/100000

  =  

117576 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

14697/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.17576 as a fraction.