What is 1.42376 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.42376 as a fraction equals 142376/100000 or 17797/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.42376 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.42376 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!

1.42376/1

  =  

1.42376 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

142376/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 142376 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 142376 are: 1  2  4  8  13  26  37  52  74  104  148  296  481  962  1369  1924  2738  3848  5476  10952  17797  35594  71188  142376 
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 142376 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.

142376/100000

  =  

142376 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

17797/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.42376 as a fraction.