What is 1.57536 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.57536 as a fraction equals 157536/100000 or 4923/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.57536 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.57536 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!

1.57536/1

  =  

1.57536 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

157536/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 157536 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 157536 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  32  36  48  72  96  144  288  547  1094  1641  2188  3282  4376  4923  6564  8752  9846  13128  17504  19692  26256  39384  52512  78768  157536 
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 157536 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

157536/100000

  =  

157536 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

4923/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.57536 as a fraction.