What is 1.30848 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.30848 as a fraction equals 130848/100000 or 4089/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.30848 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.30848 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!

1.30848/1

  =  

1.30848 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

130848/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 130848 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 130848 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  29  32  47  48  58  87  94  96  116  141  174  188  232  282  348  376  464  564  696  752  928  1128  1363  1392  1504  2256  2726  2784  4089  4512  5452  8178  10904  16356  21808  32712  43616  65424  130848 
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 130848 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

130848/100000

  =  

130848 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

4089/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.30848 as a fraction.