What is 1.31502 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.31502 as a fraction equals 131502/100000 or 65751/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.31502 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.31502 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!

1.31502/1

  =  

1.31502 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

131502/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 131502 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 131502 are: 1  2  3  6  7  14  21  31  42  62  93  101  186  202  217  303  434  606  651  707  1302  1414  2121  3131  4242  6262  9393  18786  21917  43834  65751  131502 
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 131502 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

131502/100000

  =  

131502 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

65751/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.31502 as a fraction.