What is 1.31016 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.31016 as a fraction equals 131016/100000 or 16377/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.31016 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.31016 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!

1.31016/1

  =  

1.31016 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

131016/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 131016 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 131016 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  24  53  103  106  159  206  212  309  318  412  424  618  636  824  1236  1272  2472  5459  10918  16377  21836  32754  43672  65508  131016 
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 131016 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.

131016/100000

  =  

131016 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

16377/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.31016 as a fraction.