What is 1.77632 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.77632 as a fraction equals 177632/100000 or 5551/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.77632 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.77632 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!

1.77632/1

  =  

1.77632 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

177632/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 177632 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 177632 are: 1  2  4  7  8  13  14  16  26  28  32  52  56  61  91  104  112  122  182  208  224  244  364  416  427  488  728  793  854  976  1456  1586  1708  1952  2912  3172  3416  5551  6344  6832  11102  12688  13664  22204  25376  44408  88816  177632 
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 177632 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

177632/100000

  =  

177632 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

5551/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.77632 as a fraction.