What is 1.73448 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.73448 as a fraction equals 173448/100000 or 21681/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.73448 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.73448 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!

1.73448/1

  =  

1.73448 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

173448/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 173448 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 173448 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  18  22  24  27  33  36  44  54  66  72  73  88  99  108  132  146  198  216  219  264  292  297  396  438  584  594  657  792  803  876  1188  1314  1606  1752  1971  2376  2409  2628  3212  3942  4818  5256  6424  7227  7884  9636  14454  15768  19272  21681  28908  43362  57816  86724  173448 
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 173448 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.

173448/100000

  =  

173448 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

21681/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.73448 as a fraction.