What is 1.56888 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.56888 as a fraction equals 156888/100000 or 19611/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.56888 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.56888 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!

1.56888/1

  =  

1.56888 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

156888/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 156888 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 156888 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  36  72  2179  4358  6537  8716  13074  17432  19611  26148  39222  52296  78444  156888 
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 156888 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

156888/100000

  =  

156888 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

19611/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.56888 as a fraction.