What is 1.67232 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.67232 as a fraction equals 167232/100000 or 5226/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.67232 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.67232 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!

1.67232/1

  =  

1.67232 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

167232/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 167232 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 167232 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  13  16  24  26  32  39  48  52  64  67  78  96  104  134  156  192  201  208  268  312  402  416  536  624  804  832  871  1072  1248  1608  1742  2144  2496  2613  3216  3484  4288  5226  6432  6968  10452  12864  13936  20904  27872  41808  55744  83616  167232 
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 167232 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

167232/100000

  =  

167232 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

5226/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.67232 as a fraction.