What is 1.75098 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.75098 as a fraction equals 175098/100000 or 87549/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.75098 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.75098 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!

1.75098/1

  =  

1.75098 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

175098/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 175098 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 175098 are: 1  2  3  6  7  11  14  21  22  33  42  66  77  154  231  379  462  758  1137  2274  2653  4169  5306  7959  8338  12507  15918  25014  29183  58366  87549  175098 
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 175098 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

175098/100000

  =  

175098 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

87549/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.75098 as a fraction.