What is 1.43052 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.43052 as a fraction equals 143052/100000 or 35763/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.43052 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.43052 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!

1.43052/1

  =  

1.43052 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

143052/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 143052 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 143052 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  13  14  21  26  28  39  42  52  78  84  91  131  156  182  262  273  364  393  524  546  786  917  1092  1572  1703  1834  2751  3406  3668  5109  5502  6812  10218  11004  11921  20436  23842  35763  47684  71526  143052 
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 143052 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.

143052/100000

  =  

143052 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

35763/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.43052 as a fraction.