What is 1.70892 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.70892 as a fraction equals 170892/100000 or 42723/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.70892 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.70892 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!

1.70892/1

  =  

1.70892 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

170892/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 170892 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 170892 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  47  94  101  141  188  202  282  303  404  423  564  606  846  909  1212  1692  1818  3636  4747  9494  14241  18988  28482  42723  56964  85446  170892 
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 170892 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.

170892/100000

  =  

170892 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

42723/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.70892 as a fraction.