What is 1.41246 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.41246 as a fraction equals 141246/100000 or 70623/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.41246 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.41246 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!

1.41246/1

  =  

1.41246 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

141246/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 141246 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 141246 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  14  18  19  21  38  42  57  59  63  114  118  126  133  171  177  266  342  354  399  413  531  798  826  1062  1121  1197  1239  2242  2394  2478  3363  3717  6726  7434  7847  10089  15694  20178  23541  47082  70623  141246 
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 141246 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.

141246/100000

  =  

141246 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

70623/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.41246 as a fraction.