What is 1.39932 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.39932 as a fraction equals 139932/100000 or 34983/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.39932 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.39932 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!

1.39932/1

  =  

1.39932 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

139932/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 139932 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 139932 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  13  18  23  26  36  39  46  52  69  78  92  117  138  156  169  207  234  276  299  338  414  468  507  598  676  828  897  1014  1196  1521  1794  2028  2691  3042  3588  3887  5382  6084  7774  10764  11661  15548  23322  34983  46644  69966  139932 
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 139932 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.

139932/100000

  =  

139932 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

34983/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.39932 as a fraction.