What is 1.70346 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.70346 as a fraction equals 170346/100000 or 85173/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.70346 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.70346 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!

1.70346/1

  =  

1.70346 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

170346/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 170346 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 170346 are: 1  2  3  6  11  22  29  33  58  66  87  89  174  178  267  319  534  638  957  979  1914  1958  2581  2937  5162  5874  7743  15486  28391  56782  85173  170346 
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 170346 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.

170346/100000

  =  

170346 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

85173/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.70346 as a fraction.