What is 1.82988 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.82988 as a fraction equals 182988/100000 or 45747/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.82988 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.82988 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!

1.82988/1

  =  

1.82988 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

182988/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 182988 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 182988 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  13  17  18  23  26  34  36  39  46  51  52  68  69  78  92  102  117  138  153  156  204  207  221  234  276  299  306  391  414  442  468  598  612  663  782  828  884  897  1173  1196  1326  1564  1794  1989  2346  2652  2691  3519  3588  3978  4692  5083  5382  7038  7956  10166  10764  14076  15249  20332  30498  45747  60996  91494  182988 
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 182988 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

182988/100000

  =  

182988 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

45747/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.82988 as a fraction.