What is 1.28856 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.28856 as a fraction equals 128856/100000 or 16107/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.28856 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.28856 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!

1.28856/1

  =  

1.28856 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

128856/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 128856 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 128856 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  13  14  21  24  26  28  39  42  52  56  59  78  84  91  104  118  156  168  177  182  236  273  312  354  364  413  472  546  708  728  767  826  1092  1239  1416  1534  1652  2184  2301  2478  3068  3304  4602  4956  5369  6136  9204  9912  10738  16107  18408  21476  32214  42952  64428  128856 
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 128856 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.

128856/100000

  =  

128856 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

16107/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.28856 as a fraction.