What is 1.17624 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.17624 as a fraction equals 117624/100000 or 14703/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.17624 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.17624 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!

1.17624/1

  =  

1.17624 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

117624/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 117624 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 117624 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  13  24  26  29  39  52  58  78  87  104  116  156  169  174  232  312  338  348  377  507  676  696  754  1014  1131  1352  1508  2028  2262  3016  4056  4524  4901  9048  9802  14703  19604  29406  39208  58812  117624 
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 117624 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.

117624/100000

  =  

117624 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

14703/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.17624 as a fraction.