What is 1.09944 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.09944 as a fraction equals 109944/100000 or 13743/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.09944 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.09944 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!

1.09944/1

  =  

1.09944 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

109944/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 109944 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 109944 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  27  36  54  72  108  216  509  1018  1527  2036  3054  4072  4581  6108  9162  12216  13743  18324  27486  36648  54972  109944 
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 109944 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.

109944/100000

  =  

109944 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

13743/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.09944 as a fraction.