What is 1.26945 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.26945 as a fraction equals 126945/100000 or 25389/20000

Here is the solution for converting 1.26945 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.26945 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!

1.26945/1

  =  

1.26945 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

126945/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 126945 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 126945 are: 1  3  5  7  9  13  15  21  31  35  39  45  63  65  91  93  105  117  155  195  217  273  279  315  403  455  465  585  651  819  1085  1209  1365  1395  1953  2015  2821  3255  3627  4095  6045  8463  9765  14105  18135  25389  42315  126945 
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 126945 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

126945/100000

  =  

126945 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

25389/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.26945 as a fraction.