What is 1.46718 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.46718 as a fraction equals 146718/100000 or 73359/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.46718 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.46718 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!

1.46718/1

  =  

1.46718 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

146718/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 146718 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 146718 are: 1  2  3  6  9  11  13  18  19  22  26  27  33  38  39  54  57  66  78  99  114  117  143  171  198  209  234  247  286  297  342  351  418  429  494  513  594  627  702  741  858  1026  1254  1287  1482  1881  2223  2574  2717  3762  3861  4446  5434  5643  6669  7722  8151  11286  13338  16302  24453  48906  73359  146718 
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 146718 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

146718/100000

  =  

146718 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

73359/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.46718 as a fraction.