What is 1.59315 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.59315 as a fraction equals 159315/100000 or 31863/20000

Here is the solution for converting 1.59315 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.59315 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!

1.59315/1

  =  

1.59315 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

159315/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 159315 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 159315 are: 1  3  5  13  15  19  39  43  57  65  95  129  195  215  247  285  559  645  741  817  1235  1677  2451  2795  3705  4085  8385  10621  12255  31863  53105  159315 
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 159315 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.

159315/100000

  =  

159315 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

31863/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.59315 as a fraction.