What is 1.06488 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.06488 as a fraction equals 106488/100000 or 13311/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.06488 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.06488 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!

1.06488/1

  =  

1.06488 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

106488/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 106488 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 106488 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  17  18  24  27  29  34  36  51  54  58  68  72  87  102  108  116  136  153  174  204  216  232  261  306  348  408  459  493  522  612  696  783  918  986  1044  1224  1479  1566  1836  1972  2088  2958  3132  3672  3944  4437  5916  6264  8874  11832  13311  17748  26622  35496  53244  106488 
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 106488 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

106488/100000

  =  

106488 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

13311/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.06488 as a fraction.