What is 1.30824 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.30824 as a fraction equals 130824/100000 or 16353/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.30824 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.30824 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!

1.30824/1

  =  

1.30824 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

130824/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 130824 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 130824 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  23  24  36  46  69  72  79  92  138  158  184  207  237  276  316  414  474  552  632  711  828  948  1422  1656  1817  1896  2844  3634  5451  5688  7268  10902  14536  16353  21804  32706  43608  65412  130824 
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 130824 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.

130824/100000

  =  

130824 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

16353/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.30824 as a fraction.