What is 1.85484 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.85484 as a fraction equals 185484/100000 or 46371/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.85484 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.85484 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!

1.85484/1

  =  

1.85484 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

185484/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 185484 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 185484 are: 1  2  3  4  6  12  13  26  29  39  41  52  58  78  82  87  116  123  156  164  174  246  348  377  492  533  754  1066  1131  1189  1508  1599  2132  2262  2378  3198  3567  4524  4756  6396  7134  14268  15457  30914  46371  61828  92742  185484 
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 185484 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.

185484/100000

  =  

185484 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

46371/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.85484 as a fraction.