What is 1.54044 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.54044 as a fraction equals 154044/100000 or 38511/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.54044 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.54044 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!

1.54044/1

  =  

1.54044 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

154044/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 154044 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 154044 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  11  12  18  22  33  36  44  66  99  132  198  389  396  778  1167  1556  2334  3501  4279  4668  7002  8558  12837  14004  17116  25674  38511  51348  77022  154044 
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 154044 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

154044/100000

  =  

154044 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

38511/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.54044 as a fraction.