What is 1.72692 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.72692 as a fraction equals 172692/100000 or 43173/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.72692 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.72692 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!

1.72692/1

  =  

1.72692 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

172692/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 172692 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 172692 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  13  18  26  27  36  39  41  52  54  78  81  82  108  117  123  156  162  164  234  246  324  351  369  468  492  533  702  738  1053  1066  1107  1404  1476  1599  2106  2132  2214  3198  3321  4212  4428  4797  6396  6642  9594  13284  14391  19188  28782  43173  57564  86346  172692 
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 172692 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.

172692/100000

  =  

172692 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

43173/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.72692 as a fraction.