What is 1.34596 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.34596 as a fraction equals 134596/100000 or 33649/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.34596 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.34596 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!

1.34596/1

  =  

1.34596 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

134596/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 134596 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 134596 are: 1  2  4  7  11  14  19  22  23  28  38  44  46  76  77  92  133  154  161  209  253  266  308  322  418  437  506  532  644  836  874  1012  1463  1748  1771  2926  3059  3542  4807  5852  6118  7084  9614  12236  19228  33649  67298  134596 
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 134596 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.

134596/100000

  =  

134596 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

33649/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.34596 as a fraction.