What is 1.18496 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.18496 as a fraction equals 118496/100000 or 3703/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.18496 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.18496 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!

1.18496/1

  =  

1.18496 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

118496/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 118496 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 118496 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  16  23  28  32  46  56  92  112  161  184  224  322  368  529  644  736  1058  1288  2116  2576  3703  4232  5152  7406  8464  14812  16928  29624  59248  118496 
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 118496 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

118496/100000

  =  

118496 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

3703/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.18496 as a fraction.