What is 1.06272 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 1.06272 into a fraction.

Answer: 1.06272 as a fraction equals 106272/100000 or 3321/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.06272 to a fraction:
Step 1: First, we write 1.06272 as  
1.06272/1

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!

1.06272/1
  =  
1.06272 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
106272/100000


Step 3: Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 106272 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.


The factors of 106272 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  32  36  41  48  54  72  81  82  96  108  123  144  162  164  216  246  288  324  328  369  432  492  648  656  738  864  984  1107  1296  1312  1476  1968  2214  2592  2952  3321  3936  4428  5904  6642  8856  11808  13284  17712  26568  35424  53136  106272 
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 106272 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.

106272/100000
  =  
106272 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32
  =  
3321/3125


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