What is 1.24476 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.24476 as a fraction equals 124476/100000 or 31119/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.24476 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.24476 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!

1.24476/1

  =  

1.24476 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

124476/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 124476 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 124476 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  23  33  41  44  46  66  69  82  92  123  132  138  164  246  253  276  451  492  506  759  902  943  1012  1353  1518  1804  1886  2706  2829  3036  3772  5412  5658  10373  11316  20746  31119  41492  62238  124476 
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 124476 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

124476/100000

  =  

124476 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

31119/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.24476 as a fraction.