What is 1.67112 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.67112 as a fraction equals 167112/100000 or 20889/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.67112 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.67112 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!

1.67112/1

  =  

1.67112 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

167112/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 167112 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 167112 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  18  22  24  33  36  44  66  72  88  99  132  198  211  264  396  422  633  792  844  1266  1688  1899  2321  2532  3798  4642  5064  6963  7596  9284  13926  15192  18568  20889  27852  41778  55704  83556  167112 
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 167112 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.

167112/100000

  =  

167112 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

20889/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.67112 as a fraction.