What is 1.61304 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.61304 as a fraction equals 161304/100000 or 20163/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.61304 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.61304 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!

1.61304/1

  =  

1.61304 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

161304/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 161304 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 161304 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  11  12  13  22  24  26  33  39  44  47  52  66  78  88  94  104  132  141  143  156  188  264  282  286  312  376  429  517  564  572  611  858  1034  1128  1144  1222  1551  1716  1833  2068  2444  3102  3432  3666  4136  4888  6204  6721  7332  12408  13442  14664  20163  26884  40326  53768  80652  161304 
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 161304 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

161304/100000

  =  

161304 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

20163/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.61304 as a fraction.