What is 1.41702 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.41702 as a fraction equals 141702/100000 or 70851/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.41702 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.41702 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!

1.41702/1

  =  

1.41702 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

141702/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 141702 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 141702 are: 1  2  3  6  11  19  22  33  38  57  66  113  114  209  226  339  418  627  678  1243  1254  2147  2486  3729  4294  6441  7458  12882  23617  47234  70851  141702 
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 141702 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.

141702/100000

  =  

141702 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

70851/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.41702 as a fraction.