What is 1.26072 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.26072 as a fraction equals 126072/100000 or 15759/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.26072 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.26072 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!

1.26072/1

  =  

1.26072 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

126072/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 126072 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 126072 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  17  18  24  34  36  51  68  72  102  103  136  153  204  206  306  309  408  412  612  618  824  927  1224  1236  1751  1854  2472  3502  3708  5253  7004  7416  10506  14008  15759  21012  31518  42024  63036  126072 
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 126072 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.

126072/100000

  =  

126072 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

15759/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.26072 as a fraction.