What is 1.02492 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.02492 as a fraction equals 102492/100000 or 25623/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.02492 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.02492 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!

1.02492/1

  =  

1.02492 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

102492/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 102492 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 102492 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  13  18  26  27  36  39  52  54  73  78  108  117  146  156  219  234  292  351  438  468  657  702  876  949  1314  1404  1898  1971  2628  2847  3796  3942  5694  7884  8541  11388  17082  25623  34164  51246  102492 
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 102492 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.

102492/100000

  =  

102492 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

25623/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.02492 as a fraction.