What is 1.73565 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.73565 as a fraction equals 173565/100000 or 34713/20000

Here is the solution for converting 1.73565 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.73565 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!

1.73565/1

  =  

1.73565 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

173565/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 173565 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 173565 are: 1  3  5  7  9  15  19  21  29  35  45  57  63  87  95  105  133  145  171  203  261  285  315  399  435  551  609  665  855  1015  1197  1305  1653  1827  1995  2755  3045  3857  4959  5985  8265  9135  11571  19285  24795  34713  57855  173565 
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 173565 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

173565/100000

  =  

173565 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

34713/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.73565 as a fraction.