What is 1.83438 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.83438 as a fraction equals 183438/100000 or 91719/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.83438 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.83438 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!

1.83438/1

  =  

1.83438 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

183438/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 183438 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 183438 are: 1  2  3  6  9  18  27  43  54  79  86  129  158  237  258  387  474  711  774  1161  1422  2133  2322  3397  4266  6794  10191  20382  30573  61146  91719  183438 
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 183438 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

183438/100000

  =  

183438 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

91719/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.83438 as a fraction.