What is 1.19856 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.19856 as a fraction equals 119856/100000 or 7491/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.19856 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.19856 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!

1.19856/1

  =  

1.19856 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

119856/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 119856 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 119856 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  11  12  16  22  24  33  44  48  66  88  132  176  227  264  454  528  681  908  1362  1816  2497  2724  3632  4994  5448  7491  9988  10896  14982  19976  29964  39952  59928  119856 
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 119856 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

119856/100000

  =  

119856 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

7491/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.19856 as a fraction.