What is 1.21896 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.21896 as a fraction equals 121896/100000 or 15237/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.21896 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.21896 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!

1.21896/1

  =  

1.21896 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

121896/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 121896 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 121896 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  36  72  1693  3386  5079  6772  10158  13544  15237  20316  30474  40632  60948  121896 
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 121896 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

121896/100000

  =  

121896 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

15237/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.21896 as a fraction.