What is 1.27556 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.27556 as a fraction equals 127556/100000 or 31889/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.27556 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.27556 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!

1.27556/1

  =  

1.27556 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

127556/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 127556 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 127556 are: 1  2  4  11  13  22  26  44  52  143  223  286  446  572  892  2453  2899  4906  5798  9812  11596  31889  63778  127556 
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 127556 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

127556/100000

  =  

127556 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

31889/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.27556 as a fraction.