What is 1.27072 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.27072 as a fraction equals 127072/100000 or 3971/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.27072 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.27072 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!

1.27072/1

  =  

1.27072 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

127072/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 127072 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 127072 are: 1  2  4  8  11  16  19  22  32  38  44  76  88  152  176  209  304  352  361  418  608  722  836  1444  1672  2888  3344  3971  5776  6688  7942  11552  15884  31768  63536  127072 
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 127072 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.

127072/100000

  =  

127072 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

3971/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.27072 as a fraction.