What is 1.37214 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.37214 as a fraction equals 137214/100000 or 68607/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.37214 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.37214 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!

1.37214/1

  =  

1.37214 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

137214/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 137214 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 137214 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  11  14  18  21  22  27  33  42  54  63  66  77  81  99  121  126  154  162  189  198  231  242  297  363  378  462  567  594  693  726  847  891  1089  1134  1386  1694  1782  2079  2178  2541  3267  4158  5082  6237  6534  7623  9801  12474  15246  19602  22869  45738  68607  137214 
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 137214 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

137214/100000

  =  

137214 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

68607/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.37214 as a fraction.