What is 1.74876 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.74876 as a fraction equals 174876/100000 or 43719/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.74876 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.74876 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!

1.74876/1

  =  

1.74876 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

174876/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 174876 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 174876 are: 1  2  3  4  6  12  13  19  26  38  39  52  57  59  76  78  114  118  156  177  228  236  247  354  494  708  741  767  988  1121  1482  1534  2242  2301  2964  3068  3363  4484  4602  6726  9204  13452  14573  29146  43719  58292  87438  174876 
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 174876 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.

174876/100000

  =  

174876 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

43719/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.74876 as a fraction.