What is 1.29276 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.29276 as a fraction equals 129276/100000 or 32319/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.29276 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.29276 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!

1.29276/1

  =  

1.29276 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

129276/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 129276 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 129276 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  19  21  27  28  36  38  42  54  57  63  76  81  84  108  114  126  133  162  171  189  228  243  252  266  324  342  378  399  486  513  532  567  684  756  798  972  1026  1134  1197  1539  1596  1701  2052  2268  2394  3078  3402  3591  4617  4788  6156  6804  7182  9234  10773  14364  18468  21546  32319  43092  64638  129276 
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 129276 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.

129276/100000

  =  

129276 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

32319/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.29276 as a fraction.