What is 1.60308 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.60308 as a fraction equals 160308/100000 or 40077/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.60308 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.60308 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!

1.60308/1

  =  

1.60308 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

160308/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 160308 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 160308 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  61  73  122  146  183  219  244  292  366  438  549  657  732  876  1098  1314  2196  2628  4453  8906  13359  17812  26718  40077  53436  80154  160308 
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 160308 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.

160308/100000

  =  

160308 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

40077/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.60308 as a fraction.