What is 1.65396 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.65396 as a fraction equals 165396/100000 or 41349/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.65396 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.65396 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!

1.65396/1

  =  

1.65396 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

165396/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 165396 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 165396 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  11  12  14  21  22  28  33  42  44  66  77  84  132  154  179  231  308  358  462  537  716  924  1074  1253  1969  2148  2506  3759  3938  5012  5907  7518  7876  11814  13783  15036  23628  27566  41349  55132  82698  165396 
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 165396 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.

165396/100000

  =  

165396 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

41349/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.65396 as a fraction.