What is 1.22325 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 1.22325 into a fraction.

Answer: 1.22325 as a fraction equals 122325/100000 or 4893/4000

Here is the solution for converting 1.22325 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.22325 as  
1.22325/1

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!
1.22325/1
  =  
1.22325 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
122325/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 122325 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 122325 are: 1  3  5  7  15  21  25  35  75  105  175  233  525  699  1165  1631  3495  4893  5825  8155  17475  24465  40775  122325 
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 122325 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 25

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.
122325/100000
  =  
122325 ÷ 25/100000 ÷ 25
  =  
4893/4000


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.22325 as a fraction.

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