What is 1.64088 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.64088 as a fraction equals 164088/100000 or 20511/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.64088 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.64088 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!

1.64088/1

  =  

1.64088 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

164088/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 164088 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 164088 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  36  43  53  72  86  106  129  159  172  212  258  318  344  387  424  477  516  636  774  954  1032  1272  1548  1908  2279  3096  3816  4558  6837  9116  13674  18232  20511  27348  41022  54696  82044  164088 
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 164088 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.

164088/100000

  =  

164088 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

20511/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.64088 as a fraction.