What is 1.77096 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.77096 as a fraction equals 177096/100000 or 22137/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.77096 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.77096 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!

1.77096/1

  =  

1.77096 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

177096/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 177096 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 177096 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  24  47  94  141  157  188  282  314  376  471  564  628  942  1128  1256  1884  3768  7379  14758  22137  29516  44274  59032  88548  177096 
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 177096 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

177096/100000

  =  

177096 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

22137/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.77096 as a fraction.