What is 1.54512 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.54512 as a fraction equals 154512/100000 or 9657/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.54512 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.54512 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!

1.54512/1

  =  

1.54512 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

154512/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 154512 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 154512 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  29  36  37  48  58  72  74  87  111  116  144  148  174  222  232  261  296  333  348  444  464  522  592  666  696  888  1044  1073  1332  1392  1776  2088  2146  2664  3219  4176  4292  5328  6438  8584  9657  12876  17168  19314  25752  38628  51504  77256  154512 
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 154512 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.

154512/100000

  =  

154512 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

9657/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.54512 as a fraction.