What is 1.87452 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.87452 as a fraction equals 187452/100000 or 46863/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.87452 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.87452 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!

1.87452/1

  =  

1.87452 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

187452/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 187452 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 187452 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  41  82  123  127  164  246  254  369  381  492  508  738  762  1143  1476  1524  2286  4572  5207  10414  15621  20828  31242  46863  62484  93726  187452 
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 187452 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.

187452/100000

  =  

187452 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

46863/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.87452 as a fraction.