What is 1.24632 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.24632 as a fraction equals 124632/100000 or 15579/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.24632 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.24632 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!

1.24632/1

  =  

1.24632 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

124632/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 124632 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 124632 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  27  36  54  72  108  216  577  1154  1731  2308  3462  4616  5193  6924  10386  13848  15579  20772  31158  41544  62316  124632 
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 124632 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

124632/100000

  =  

124632 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

15579/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.24632 as a fraction.