What is 1.23585 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.23585 as a fraction equals 123585/100000 or 24717/20000

Here is the solution for converting 1.23585 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.23585 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!

1.23585/1

  =  

1.23585 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

123585/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 123585 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 123585 are: 1  3  5  7  11  15  21  33  35  55  77  105  107  165  231  321  385  535  749  1155  1177  1605  2247  3531  3745  5885  8239  11235  17655  24717  41195  123585 
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 123585 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

123585/100000

  =  

123585 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

24717/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.23585 as a fraction.