What is 1.52328 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.52328 as a fraction equals 152328/100000 or 19041/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.52328 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.52328 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!

1.52328/1

  =  

1.52328 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

152328/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 152328 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 152328 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  11  12  22  24  33  44  66  88  132  264  577  1154  1731  2308  3462  4616  6347  6924  12694  13848  19041  25388  38082  50776  76164  152328 
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 152328 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

152328/100000

  =  

152328 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

19041/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.52328 as a fraction.