What is 1.41432 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.41432 as a fraction equals 141432/100000 or 17679/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.41432 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.41432 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!

1.41432/1

  =  

1.41432 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

141432/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 141432 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 141432 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  24  71  83  142  166  213  249  284  332  426  498  568  664  852  996  1704  1992  5893  11786  17679  23572  35358  47144  70716  141432 
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 141432 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

141432/100000

  =  

141432 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

17679/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.41432 as a fraction.