What is 1.68714 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.68714 as a fraction equals 168714/100000 or 84357/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.68714 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.68714 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!

1.68714/1

  =  

1.68714 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

168714/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 168714 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 168714 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  13  14  18  21  26  39  42  63  78  91  103  117  126  182  206  234  273  309  546  618  721  819  927  1339  1442  1638  1854  2163  2678  4017  4326  6489  8034  9373  12051  12978  18746  24102  28119  56238  84357  168714 
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 168714 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

168714/100000

  =  

168714 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

84357/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.68714 as a fraction.