What is 1.71504 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.71504 as a fraction equals 171504/100000 or 10719/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.71504 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.71504 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!

1.71504/1

  =  

1.71504 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

171504/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 171504 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 171504 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  36  48  54  72  108  144  216  397  432  794  1191  1588  2382  3176  3573  4764  6352  7146  9528  10719  14292  19056  21438  28584  42876  57168  85752  171504 
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 171504 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

171504/100000

  =  

171504 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

10719/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.71504 as a fraction.