What is 1.84728 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.84728 as a fraction equals 184728/100000 or 23091/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.84728 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.84728 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!

1.84728/1

  =  

1.84728 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

184728/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 184728 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 184728 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  24  43  86  129  172  179  258  344  358  516  537  716  1032  1074  1432  2148  4296  7697  15394  23091  30788  46182  61576  92364  184728 
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 184728 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.

184728/100000

  =  

184728 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

23091/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.84728 as a fraction.