What is 1.48848 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.48848 as a fraction equals 148848/100000 or 9303/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.48848 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.48848 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!

1.48848/1

  =  

1.48848 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

148848/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 148848 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 148848 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  16  21  24  28  42  48  56  84  112  168  336  443  886  1329  1772  2658  3101  3544  5316  6202  7088  9303  10632  12404  18606  21264  24808  37212  49616  74424  148848 
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 148848 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.

148848/100000

  =  

148848 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

9303/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.48848 as a fraction.