What is 1.24956 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.24956 as a fraction equals 124956/100000 or 31239/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.24956 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.24956 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!

1.24956/1

  =  

1.24956 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

124956/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 124956 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 124956 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  13  18  26  27  36  39  52  54  78  89  108  117  156  178  234  267  351  356  468  534  702  801  1068  1157  1404  1602  2314  2403  3204  3471  4628  4806  6942  9612  10413  13884  20826  31239  41652  62478  124956 
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 124956 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.

124956/100000

  =  

124956 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

31239/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.24956 as a fraction.