What is 1.82736 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.82736 as a fraction equals 182736/100000 or 11421/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.82736 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.82736 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!

1.82736/1

  =  

1.82736 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

182736/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 182736 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 182736 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  36  47  48  54  72  81  94  108  141  144  162  188  216  243  282  324  376  423  432  486  564  648  752  846  972  1128  1269  1296  1692  1944  2256  2538  3384  3807  3888  5076  6768  7614  10152  11421  15228  20304  22842  30456  45684  60912  91368  182736 
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 182736 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.

182736/100000

  =  

182736 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

11421/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.82736 as a fraction.