What is 1.48518 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.48518 as a fraction equals 148518/100000 or 74259/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.48518 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.48518 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!

1.48518/1

  =  

1.48518 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

148518/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 148518 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 148518 are: 1  2  3  6  9  18  37  74  111  222  223  333  446  666  669  1338  2007  4014  8251  16502  24753  49506  74259  148518 
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 148518 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.

148518/100000

  =  

148518 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

74259/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.48518 as a fraction.