What is 1.82952 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.82952 as a fraction equals 182952/100000 or 22869/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.82952 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.82952 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!

1.82952/1

  =  

1.82952 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

182952/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 182952 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 182952 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  9  11  12  14  18  21  22  24  27  28  33  36  42  44  54  56  63  66  72  77  84  88  99  108  121  126  132  154  168  189  198  216  231  242  252  264  297  308  363  378  396  462  484  504  594  616  693  726  756  792  847  924  968  1089  1188  1386  1452  1512  1694  1848  2079  2178  2376  2541  2772  2904  3267  3388  4158  4356  5082  5544  6534  6776  7623  8316  8712  10164  13068  15246  16632  20328  22869  26136  30492  45738  60984  91476  182952 
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 182952 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.

182952/100000

  =  

182952 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

22869/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.82952 as a fraction.