What is 1.31616 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.31616 as a fraction equals 131616/100000 or 4113/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.31616 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.31616 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!

1.31616/1

  =  

1.31616 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

131616/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 131616 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 131616 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  32  36  48  72  96  144  288  457  914  1371  1828  2742  3656  4113  5484  7312  8226  10968  14624  16452  21936  32904  43872  65808  131616 
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 131616 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.

131616/100000

  =  

131616 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

4113/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.31616 as a fraction.