What is 1.63438 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.63438 as a fraction equals 163438/100000 or 81719/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.63438 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.63438 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!

1.63438/1

  =  

1.63438 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

163438/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 163438 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 163438 are: 1  2  11  17  19  22  23  34  38  46  187  209  253  323  374  391  418  437  506  646  782  874  3553  4301  4807  7106  7429  8602  9614  14858  81719  163438 
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 163438 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

163438/100000

  =  

163438 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

81719/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.63438 as a fraction.