What is 1.84788 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.84788 as a fraction equals 184788/100000 or 46197/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.84788 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.84788 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!

1.84788/1

  =  

1.84788 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

184788/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 184788 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 184788 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  27  29  36  54  58  59  87  108  116  118  174  177  236  261  348  354  522  531  708  783  1044  1062  1566  1593  1711  2124  3132  3186  3422  5133  6372  6844  10266  15399  20532  30798  46197  61596  92394  184788 
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 184788 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.

184788/100000

  =  

184788 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

46197/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.84788 as a fraction.