What is 1.42324 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.42324 as a fraction equals 142324/100000 or 35581/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.42324 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.42324 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!

1.42324/1

  =  

1.42324 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

142324/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 142324 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 142324 are: 1  2  4  7  13  14  17  23  26  28  34  46  52  68  91  92  119  161  182  221  238  299  322  364  391  442  476  598  644  782  884  1196  1547  1564  2093  2737  3094  4186  5083  5474  6188  8372  10166  10948  20332  35581  71162  142324 
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 142324 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.

142324/100000

  =  

142324 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

35581/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.42324 as a fraction.