What is 1.99342 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.99342 as a fraction equals 199342/100000 or 99671/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.99342 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.99342 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!

1.99342/1

  =  

1.99342 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

199342/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 199342 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 199342 are: 1  2  11  13  17  22  26  34  41  82  143  187  221  286  374  442  451  533  697  902  1066  1394  2431  4862  5863  7667  9061  11726  15334  18122  99671  199342 
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 199342 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

199342/100000

  =  

199342 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

99671/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.99342 as a fraction.