What is 1.88048 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.88048 as a fraction equals 188048/100000 or 11753/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.88048 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.88048 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!

1.88048/1

  =  

1.88048 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

188048/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 188048 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 188048 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  16  23  28  46  56  73  92  112  146  161  184  292  322  368  511  584  644  1022  1168  1288  1679  2044  2576  3358  4088  6716  8176  11753  13432  23506  26864  47012  94024  188048 
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 188048 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.

188048/100000

  =  

188048 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

11753/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.88048 as a fraction.