What is 1.58235 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.58235 as a fraction equals 158235/100000 or 31647/20000

Here is the solution for converting 1.58235 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.58235 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!

1.58235/1

  =  

1.58235 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

158235/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 158235 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 158235 are: 1  3  5  7  11  15  21  33  35  55  77  105  137  165  231  385  411  685  959  1155  1507  2055  2877  4521  4795  7535  10549  14385  22605  31647  52745  158235 
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 158235 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

158235/100000

  =  

158235 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

31647/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.58235 as a fraction.