What is 1.57356 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.57356 as a fraction equals 157356/100000 or 39339/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.57356 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.57356 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!

1.57356/1

  =  

1.57356 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

157356/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 157356 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 157356 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  27  31  36  47  54  62  93  94  108  124  141  186  188  279  282  372  423  558  564  837  846  1116  1269  1457  1674  1692  2538  2914  3348  4371  5076  5828  8742  13113  17484  26226  39339  52452  78678  157356 
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 157356 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.

157356/100000

  =  

157356 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

39339/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.57356 as a fraction.