What is 1.42584 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.42584 as a fraction equals 142584/100000 or 17823/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.42584 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.42584 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!

1.42584/1

  =  

1.42584 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

142584/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 142584 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 142584 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  13  24  26  39  52  78  104  156  312  457  914  1371  1828  2742  3656  5484  5941  10968  11882  17823  23764  35646  47528  71292  142584 
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 142584 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.

142584/100000

  =  

142584 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

17823/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.42584 as a fraction.