What is 1.87248 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.87248 as a fraction equals 187248/100000 or 11703/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.87248 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.87248 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!

1.87248/1

  =  

1.87248 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

187248/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 187248 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 187248 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  47  48  83  94  141  166  188  249  282  332  376  498  564  664  752  996  1128  1328  1992  2256  3901  3984  7802  11703  15604  23406  31208  46812  62416  93624  187248 
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 187248 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.

187248/100000

  =  

187248 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

11703/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.87248 as a fraction.