What is 1.26464 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.26464 as a fraction equals 126464/100000 or 3952/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.26464 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.26464 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!

1.26464/1

  =  

1.26464 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

126464/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 126464 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 126464 are: 1  2  4  8  13  16  19  26  32  38  52  64  76  104  128  152  208  247  256  304  416  494  512  608  832  988  1216  1664  1976  2432  3328  3952  4864  6656  7904  9728  15808  31616  63232  126464 
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 126464 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

126464/100000

  =  

126464 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

3952/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.26464 as a fraction.