What is 1.79955 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.79955 as a fraction equals 179955/100000 or 35991/20000

Here is the solution for converting 1.79955 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.79955 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!

1.79955/1

  =  

1.79955 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

179955/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 179955 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 179955 are: 1  3  5  9  15  27  31  43  45  93  129  135  155  215  279  387  465  645  837  1161  1333  1395  1935  3999  4185  5805  6665  11997  19995  35991  59985  179955 
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 179955 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

179955/100000

  =  

179955 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

35991/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.79955 as a fraction.