What is 1.27624 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.27624 as a fraction equals 127624/100000 or 15953/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.27624 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.27624 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!

1.27624/1

  =  

1.27624 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

127624/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 127624 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 127624 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  28  43  53  56  86  106  172  212  301  344  371  424  602  742  1204  1484  2279  2408  2968  4558  9116  15953  18232  31906  63812  127624 
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 127624 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

127624/100000

  =  

127624 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

15953/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.27624 as a fraction.