What is 1.48304 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.48304 as a fraction equals 148304/100000 or 9269/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.48304 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.48304 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!

1.48304/1

  =  

1.48304 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

148304/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 148304 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 148304 are: 1  2  4  8  13  16  23  26  31  46  52  62  92  104  124  184  208  248  299  368  403  496  598  713  806  1196  1426  1612  2392  2852  3224  4784  5704  6448  9269  11408  18538  37076  74152  148304 
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 148304 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

148304/100000

  =  

148304 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

9269/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.48304 as a fraction.