What is 1.14552 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.14552 as a fraction equals 114552/100000 or 14319/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.14552 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.14552 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!

1.14552/1

  =  

1.14552 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

114552/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 114552 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 114552 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  36  37  43  72  74  86  111  129  148  172  222  258  296  333  344  387  444  516  666  774  888  1032  1332  1548  1591  2664  3096  3182  4773  6364  9546  12728  14319  19092  28638  38184  57276  114552 
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 114552 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.

114552/100000

  =  

114552 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

14319/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.14552 as a fraction.