What is 1.22688 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.22688 as a fraction equals 122688/100000 or 3834/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.22688 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.22688 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!

1.22688/1

  =  

1.22688 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

122688/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 122688 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 122688 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  32  36  48  54  64  71  72  96  108  142  144  192  213  216  284  288  426  432  568  576  639  852  864  1136  1278  1704  1728  1917  2272  2556  3408  3834  4544  5112  6816  7668  10224  13632  15336  20448  30672  40896  61344  122688 
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 122688 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.

122688/100000

  =  

122688 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

3834/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.22688 as a fraction.