What is 1.45288 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.45288 as a fraction equals 145288/100000 or 18161/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.45288 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.45288 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!

1.45288/1

  =  

1.45288 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

145288/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 145288 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 145288 are: 1  2  4  8  11  13  22  26  44  52  88  104  127  143  254  286  508  572  1016  1144  1397  1651  2794  3302  5588  6604  11176  13208  18161  36322  72644  145288 
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 145288 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.

145288/100000

  =  

145288 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

18161/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.45288 as a fraction.