What is 1.22508 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.22508 as a fraction equals 122508/100000 or 30627/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.22508 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.22508 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!

1.22508/1

  =  

1.22508 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

122508/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 122508 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 122508 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  41  82  83  123  164  166  246  249  332  369  492  498  738  747  996  1476  1494  2988  3403  6806  10209  13612  20418  30627  40836  61254  122508 
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 122508 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.

122508/100000

  =  

122508 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

30627/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.22508 as a fraction.