What is 1.12812 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.12812 as a fraction equals 112812/100000 or 28203/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.12812 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.12812 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!

1.12812/1

  =  

1.12812 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

112812/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 112812 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 112812 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  14  17  21  28  34  42  51  68  79  84  102  119  158  204  237  238  316  357  474  476  553  714  948  1106  1343  1428  1659  2212  2686  3318  4029  5372  6636  8058  9401  16116  18802  28203  37604  56406  112812 
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 112812 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.

112812/100000

  =  

112812 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

28203/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.12812 as a fraction.