What is 1.83396 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.83396 as a fraction equals 183396/100000 or 45849/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.83396 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.83396 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!

1.83396/1

  =  

1.83396 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

183396/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 183396 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 183396 are: 1  2  3  4  6  12  17  29  31  34  51  58  62  68  87  93  102  116  124  174  186  204  348  372  493  527  899  986  1054  1479  1581  1798  1972  2108  2697  2958  3162  3596  5394  5916  6324  10788  15283  30566  45849  61132  91698  183396 
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 183396 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.

183396/100000

  =  

183396 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

45849/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.83396 as a fraction.