What is 1.27932 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.27932 as a fraction equals 127932/100000 or 31983/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.27932 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.27932 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!

1.27932/1

  =  

1.27932 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

127932/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 127932 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 127932 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  14  21  28  42  84  1523  3046  4569  6092  9138  10661  18276  21322  31983  42644  63966  127932 
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 127932 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.

127932/100000

  =  

127932 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

31983/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.27932 as a fraction.