What is 1.36224 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.36224 as a fraction equals 136224/100000 or 4257/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.36224 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.36224 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!

1.36224/1

  =  

1.36224 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

136224/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 136224 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 136224 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  16  18  22  24  32  33  36  43  44  48  66  72  86  88  96  99  129  132  144  172  176  198  258  264  288  344  352  387  396  473  516  528  688  774  792  946  1032  1056  1376  1419  1548  1584  1892  2064  2838  3096  3168  3784  4128  4257  5676  6192  7568  8514  11352  12384  15136  17028  22704  34056  45408  68112  136224 
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 136224 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.

136224/100000

  =  

136224 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

4257/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.36224 as a fraction.