What is 1.86384 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.86384 as a fraction equals 186384/100000 or 11649/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.86384 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.86384 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!

1.86384/1

  =  

1.86384 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

186384/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 186384 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 186384 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  11  12  16  22  24  33  44  48  66  88  132  176  264  353  528  706  1059  1412  2118  2824  3883  4236  5648  7766  8472  11649  15532  16944  23298  31064  46596  62128  93192  186384 
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 186384 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

186384/100000

  =  

186384 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

11649/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.86384 as a fraction.