What is 1.52496 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.52496 as a fraction equals 152496/100000 or 9531/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.52496 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.52496 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!

1.52496/1

  =  

1.52496 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

152496/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 152496 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 152496 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  36  48  54  72  108  144  216  353  432  706  1059  1412  2118  2824  3177  4236  5648  6354  8472  9531  12708  16944  19062  25416  38124  50832  76248  152496 
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 152496 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.

152496/100000

  =  

152496 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

9531/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.52496 as a fraction.