What is 1.50384 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.50384 as a fraction equals 150384/100000 or 9399/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.50384 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.50384 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!

1.50384/1

  =  

1.50384 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

150384/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 150384 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 150384 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  13  16  24  26  39  48  52  78  104  156  208  241  312  482  624  723  964  1446  1928  2892  3133  3856  5784  6266  9399  11568  12532  18798  25064  37596  50128  75192  150384 
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 150384 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.

150384/100000

  =  

150384 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

9399/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.50384 as a fraction.