What is 1.29096 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.29096 as a fraction equals 129096/100000 or 16137/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.29096 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.29096 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!

1.29096/1

  =  

1.29096 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

129096/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 129096 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 129096 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  18  22  24  33  36  44  66  72  88  99  132  163  198  264  326  396  489  652  792  978  1304  1467  1793  1956  2934  3586  3912  5379  5868  7172  10758  11736  14344  16137  21516  32274  43032  64548  129096 
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 129096 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.

129096/100000

  =  

129096 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

16137/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.29096 as a fraction.