What is 1.26896 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.26896 as a fraction equals 126896/100000 or 7931/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.26896 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.26896 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!

1.26896/1

  =  

1.26896 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

126896/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 126896 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 126896 are: 1  2  4  7  8  11  14  16  22  28  44  56  77  88  103  112  154  176  206  308  412  616  721  824  1133  1232  1442  1648  2266  2884  4532  5768  7931  9064  11536  15862  18128  31724  63448  126896 
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 126896 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

126896/100000

  =  

126896 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

7931/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.26896 as a fraction.