What is 1.61616 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.61616 as a fraction equals 161616/100000 or 10101/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.61616 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.61616 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!

1.61616/1

  =  

1.61616 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

161616/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 161616 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 161616 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  13  14  16  21  24  26  28  37  39  42  48  52  56  74  78  84  91  104  111  112  148  156  168  182  208  222  259  273  296  312  336  364  444  481  518  546  592  624  728  777  888  962  1036  1092  1443  1456  1554  1776  1924  2072  2184  2886  3108  3367  3848  4144  4368  5772  6216  6734  7696  10101  11544  12432  13468  20202  23088  26936  40404  53872  80808  161616 
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 161616 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

161616/100000

  =  

161616 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

10101/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.61616 as a fraction.