What is 1.22976 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.22976 as a fraction equals 122976/100000 or 3843/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.22976 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.22976 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!

1.22976/1

  =  

1.22976 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

122976/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 122976 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 122976 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  9  12  14  16  18  21  24  28  32  36  42  48  56  61  63  72  84  96  112  122  126  144  168  183  224  244  252  288  336  366  427  488  504  549  672  732  854  976  1008  1098  1281  1464  1708  1952  2016  2196  2562  2928  3416  3843  4392  5124  5856  6832  7686  8784  10248  13664  15372  17568  20496  30744  40992  61488  122976 
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 122976 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.

122976/100000

  =  

122976 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

3843/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.22976 as a fraction.