What is 1.49526 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.49526 as a fraction equals 149526/100000 or 74763/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.49526 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.49526 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!

1.49526/1

  =  

1.49526 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

149526/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 149526 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 149526 are: 1  2  3  6  9  13  18  26  27  39  54  71  78  81  117  142  162  213  234  351  426  639  702  923  1053  1278  1846  1917  2106  2769  3834  5538  5751  8307  11502  16614  24921  49842  74763  149526 
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 149526 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.

149526/100000

  =  

149526 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

74763/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.49526 as a fraction.