What is 1.23888 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.23888 as a fraction equals 123888/100000 or 7743/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.23888 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.23888 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!

1.23888/1

  =  

1.23888 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

123888/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 123888 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 123888 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  29  48  58  87  89  116  174  178  232  267  348  356  464  534  696  712  1068  1392  1424  2136  2581  4272  5162  7743  10324  15486  20648  30972  41296  61944  123888 
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 123888 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

123888/100000

  =  

123888 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

7743/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.23888 as a fraction.