What is 1.61856 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.61856 as a fraction equals 161856/100000 or 5058/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.61856 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.61856 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!

1.61856/1

  =  

1.61856 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

161856/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 161856 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 161856 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  32  36  48  64  72  96  144  192  281  288  562  576  843  1124  1686  2248  2529  3372  4496  5058  6744  8992  10116  13488  17984  20232  26976  40464  53952  80928  161856 
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 161856 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

161856/100000

  =  

161856 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

5058/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.61856 as a fraction.