What is 1.76148 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.76148 as a fraction equals 176148/100000 or 44037/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.76148 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.76148 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!

1.76148/1

  =  

1.76148 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

176148/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 176148 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 176148 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  27  28  36  42  54  63  84  108  126  189  233  252  378  466  699  756  932  1398  1631  2097  2796  3262  4194  4893  6291  6524  8388  9786  12582  14679  19572  25164  29358  44037  58716  88074  176148 
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 176148 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.

176148/100000

  =  

176148 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

44037/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.76148 as a fraction.