What is 1.73536 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.73536 as a fraction equals 173536/100000 or 5423/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.73536 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.73536 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!

1.73536/1

  =  

1.73536 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

173536/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 173536 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 173536 are: 1  2  4  8  11  16  17  22  29  32  34  44  58  68  88  116  136  176  187  232  272  319  352  374  464  493  544  638  748  928  986  1276  1496  1972  2552  2992  3944  5104  5423  5984  7888  10208  10846  15776  21692  43384  86768  173536 
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 173536 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

173536/100000

  =  

173536 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

5423/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.73536 as a fraction.