What is 1.17705 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.17705 as a fraction equals 117705/100000 or 23541/20000

Here is the solution for converting 1.17705 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.17705 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!

1.17705/1

  =  

1.17705 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

117705/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 117705 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 117705 are: 1  3  5  7  15  19  21  35  57  59  95  105  133  177  285  295  399  413  665  885  1121  1239  1995  2065  3363  5605  6195  7847  16815  23541  39235  117705 
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 117705 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

117705/100000

  =  

117705 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

23541/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.17705 as a fraction.