What is 1.32468 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.32468 as a fraction equals 132468/100000 or 33117/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.32468 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.32468 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!

1.32468/1

  =  

1.32468 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

132468/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 132468 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 132468 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  14  19  21  28  38  42  57  76  83  84  114  133  166  228  249  266  332  399  498  532  581  798  996  1162  1577  1596  1743  2324  3154  3486  4731  6308  6972  9462  11039  18924  22078  33117  44156  66234  132468 
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 132468 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

132468/100000

  =  

132468 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

33117/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.32468 as a fraction.