What is 1.77232 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.77232 as a fraction equals 177232/100000 or 11077/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.77232 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.77232 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!

1.77232/1

  =  

1.77232 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

177232/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 177232 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 177232 are: 1  2  4  8  11  16  19  22  38  44  53  76  88  106  152  176  209  212  304  418  424  583  836  848  1007  1166  1672  2014  2332  3344  4028  4664  8056  9328  11077  16112  22154  44308  88616  177232 
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 177232 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

177232/100000

  =  

177232 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

11077/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.77232 as a fraction.