What is 1.04468 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.04468 as a fraction equals 104468/100000 or 26117/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.04468 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.04468 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!

1.04468/1

  =  

1.04468 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

104468/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 104468 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 104468 are: 1  2  4  7  13  14  26  28  41  49  52  82  91  98  164  182  196  287  364  533  574  637  1066  1148  1274  2009  2132  2548  3731  4018  7462  8036  14924  26117  52234  104468 
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 104468 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.

104468/100000

  =  

104468 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

26117/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.04468 as a fraction.