What is 1.19462 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.19462 as a fraction equals 119462/100000 or 59731/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.19462 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.19462 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!

1.19462/1

  =  

1.19462 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

119462/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 119462 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 119462 are: 1  2  7  14  23  46  49  53  98  106  161  322  371  742  1127  1219  2254  2438  2597  5194  8533  17066  59731  119462 
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 119462 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.

119462/100000

  =  

119462 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

59731/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.19462 as a fraction.