What is 1.20132 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.20132 as a fraction equals 120132/100000 or 30033/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.20132 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.20132 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!

1.20132/1

  =  

1.20132 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

120132/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 120132 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 120132 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  47  71  94  141  142  188  213  282  284  423  426  564  639  846  852  1278  1692  2556  3337  6674  10011  13348  20022  30033  40044  60066  120132 
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 120132 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.

120132/100000

  =  

120132 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

30033/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.20132 as a fraction.