What is 1.62936 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.62936 as a fraction equals 162936/100000 or 20367/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.62936 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.62936 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!

1.62936/1

  =  

1.62936 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

162936/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 162936 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 162936 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  31  36  62  72  73  93  124  146  186  219  248  279  292  372  438  558  584  657  744  876  1116  1314  1752  2232  2263  2628  4526  5256  6789  9052  13578  18104  20367  27156  40734  54312  81468  162936 
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 162936 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.

162936/100000

  =  

162936 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

20367/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.62936 as a fraction.