What is 1.84884 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.84884 as a fraction equals 184884/100000 or 46221/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.84884 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.84884 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!

1.84884/1

  =  

1.84884 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

184884/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 184884 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 184884 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  14  21  28  31  42  62  71  84  93  124  142  186  213  217  284  372  426  434  497  651  852  868  994  1302  1491  1988  2201  2604  2982  4402  5964  6603  8804  13206  15407  26412  30814  46221  61628  92442  184884 
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 184884 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.

184884/100000

  =  

184884 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

46221/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.84884 as a fraction.