What is 1.46076 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.46076 as a fraction equals 146076/100000 or 36519/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.46076 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.46076 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!

1.46076/1

  =  

1.46076 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

146076/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 146076 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 146076 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  14  21  28  37  42  47  74  84  94  111  141  148  188  222  259  282  329  444  518  564  658  777  987  1036  1316  1554  1739  1974  3108  3478  3948  5217  6956  10434  12173  20868  24346  36519  48692  73038  146076 
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 146076 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.

146076/100000

  =  

146076 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

36519/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.46076 as a fraction.