What is 1.88832 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.88832 as a fraction equals 188832/100000 or 5901/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.88832 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.88832 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!

1.88832/1

  =  

1.88832 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

188832/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 188832 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 188832 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  16  21  24  28  32  42  48  56  84  96  112  168  224  281  336  562  672  843  1124  1686  1967  2248  3372  3934  4496  5901  6744  7868  8992  11802  13488  15736  23604  26976  31472  47208  62944  94416  188832 
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 188832 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

188832/100000

  =  

188832 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

5901/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.88832 as a fraction.