What is 1.65132 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.65132 as a fraction equals 165132/100000 or 41283/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.65132 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.65132 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!

1.65132/1

  =  

1.65132 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

165132/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 165132 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 165132 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  11  12  18  22  27  33  36  44  54  66  99  108  132  139  198  278  297  396  417  556  594  834  1188  1251  1529  1668  2502  3058  3753  4587  5004  6116  7506  9174  13761  15012  18348  27522  41283  55044  82566  165132 
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 165132 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

165132/100000

  =  

165132 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

41283/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.65132 as a fraction.