What is 1.25832 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.25832 as a fraction equals 125832/100000 or 15729/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.25832 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.25832 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!

1.25832/1

  =  

1.25832 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

125832/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 125832 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 125832 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  21  24  28  42  49  56  84  98  107  147  168  196  214  294  321  392  428  588  642  749  856  1176  1284  1498  2247  2568  2996  4494  5243  5992  8988  10486  15729  17976  20972  31458  41944  62916  125832 
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 125832 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.

125832/100000

  =  

125832 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

15729/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.25832 as a fraction.