What is 1.36272 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.36272 as a fraction equals 136272/100000 or 8517/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.36272 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.36272 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!

1.36272/1

  =  

1.36272 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

136272/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 136272 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 136272 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  17  24  34  48  51  68  102  136  167  204  272  334  408  501  668  816  1002  1336  2004  2672  2839  4008  5678  8016  8517  11356  17034  22712  34068  45424  68136  136272 
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 136272 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

136272/100000

  =  

136272 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

8517/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.36272 as a fraction.