What is 1.37788 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.37788 as a fraction equals 137788/100000 or 34447/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.37788 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.37788 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!

1.37788/1

  =  

1.37788 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

137788/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 137788 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 137788 are: 1  2  4  7  14  19  28  37  38  49  74  76  98  133  148  196  259  266  518  532  703  931  1036  1406  1813  1862  2812  3626  3724  4921  7252  9842  19684  34447  68894  137788 
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 137788 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.

137788/100000

  =  

137788 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

34447/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.37788 as a fraction.