What is 1.42692 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.42692 as a fraction equals 142692/100000 or 35673/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.42692 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.42692 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!

1.42692/1

  =  

1.42692 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

142692/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 142692 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 142692 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  23  33  44  46  47  66  69  92  94  132  138  141  188  253  276  282  506  517  564  759  1012  1034  1081  1518  1551  2068  2162  3036  3102  3243  4324  6204  6486  11891  12972  23782  35673  47564  71346  142692 
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 142692 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.

142692/100000

  =  

142692 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

35673/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.42692 as a fraction.