What is 1.19595 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.19595 as a fraction equals 119595/100000 or 23919/20000

Here is the solution for converting 1.19595 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.19595 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!

1.19595/1

  =  

1.19595 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

119595/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 119595 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 119595 are: 1  3  5  7  15  17  21  35  51  67  85  105  119  201  255  335  357  469  595  1005  1139  1407  1785  2345  3417  5695  7035  7973  17085  23919  39865  119595 
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 119595 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

119595/100000

  =  

119595 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

23919/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.19595 as a fraction.