What is 1.18482 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.18482 as a fraction equals 118482/100000 or 59241/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.18482 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.18482 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!

1.18482/1

  =  

1.18482 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

118482/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 118482 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 118482 are: 1  2  3  6  7  13  14  21  26  31  39  42  49  62  78  91  93  98  147  182  186  217  273  294  403  434  546  637  651  806  1209  1274  1302  1519  1911  2418  2821  3038  3822  4557  5642  8463  9114  16926  19747  39494  59241  118482 
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 118482 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

118482/100000

  =  

118482 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

59241/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.18482 as a fraction.