What is 1.55034 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.55034 as a fraction equals 155034/100000 or 77517/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.55034 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.55034 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!

1.55034/1

  =  

1.55034 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

155034/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 155034 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 155034 are: 1  2  3  6  9  11  18  22  27  29  33  54  58  66  81  87  99  162  174  198  243  261  297  319  486  522  594  638  783  891  957  1566  1782  1914  2349  2673  2871  4698  5346  5742  7047  8613  14094  17226  25839  51678  77517  155034 
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 155034 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

155034/100000

  =  

155034 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

77517/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.55034 as a fraction.