What is 1.34688 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.34688 as a fraction equals 134688/100000 or 4209/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.34688 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.34688 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!

1.34688/1

  =  

1.34688 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

134688/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 134688 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 134688 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  23  24  32  46  48  61  69  92  96  122  138  183  184  244  276  366  368  488  552  732  736  976  1104  1403  1464  1952  2208  2806  2928  4209  5612  5856  8418  11224  16836  22448  33672  44896  67344  134688 
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 134688 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.

134688/100000

  =  

134688 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

4209/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.34688 as a fraction.