What is 1.32704 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.32704 as a fraction equals 132704/100000 or 4147/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.32704 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.32704 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!

1.32704/1

  =  

1.32704 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

132704/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 132704 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 132704 are: 1  2  4  8  11  13  16  22  26  29  32  44  52  58  88  104  116  143  176  208  232  286  319  352  377  416  464  572  638  754  928  1144  1276  1508  2288  2552  3016  4147  4576  5104  6032  8294  10208  12064  16588  33176  66352  132704 
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 132704 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.

132704/100000

  =  

132704 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

4147/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.32704 as a fraction.