What is 1.94292 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.94292 as a fraction equals 194292/100000 or 48573/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.94292 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.94292 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!

1.94292/1

  =  

1.94292 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

194292/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 194292 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 194292 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  27  28  36  42  54  63  84  108  126  189  252  257  378  514  756  771  1028  1542  1799  2313  3084  3598  4626  5397  6939  7196  9252  10794  13878  16191  21588  27756  32382  48573  64764  97146  194292 
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 194292 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.

194292/100000

  =  

194292 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

48573/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.94292 as a fraction.