What is 1.55472 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.55472 as a fraction equals 155472/100000 or 9717/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.55472 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.55472 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!

1.55472/1

  =  

1.55472 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

155472/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 155472 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 155472 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  41  48  79  82  123  158  164  237  246  316  328  474  492  632  656  948  984  1264  1896  1968  3239  3792  6478  9717  12956  19434  25912  38868  51824  77736  155472 
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 155472 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.

155472/100000

  =  

155472 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

9717/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.55472 as a fraction.