What is 1.72744 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.72744 as a fraction equals 172744/100000 or 21593/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.72744 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.72744 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!

1.72744/1

  =  

1.72744 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

172744/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 172744 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 172744 are: 1  2  4  8  11  13  22  26  44  52  88  104  143  151  286  302  572  604  1144  1208  1661  1963  3322  3926  6644  7852  13288  15704  21593  43186  86372  172744 
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 172744 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

172744/100000

  =  

172744 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

21593/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.72744 as a fraction.