What is 1.39722 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.39722 as a fraction equals 139722/100000 or 69861/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.39722 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.39722 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!

1.39722/1

  =  

1.39722 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

139722/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 139722 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 139722 are: 1  2  3  6  11  22  29  33  58  66  73  87  146  174  219  319  438  638  803  957  1606  1914  2117  2409  4234  4818  6351  12702  23287  46574  69861  139722 
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 139722 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.

139722/100000

  =  

139722 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

69861/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.39722 as a fraction.