What is 1.24124 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.24124 as a fraction equals 124124/100000 or 31031/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.24124 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.24124 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!

1.24124/1

  =  

1.24124 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

124124/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 124124 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 124124 are: 1  2  4  7  11  13  14  22  26  28  31  44  52  62  77  91  124  143  154  182  217  286  308  341  364  403  434  572  682  806  868  1001  1364  1612  2002  2387  2821  4004  4433  4774  5642  8866  9548  11284  17732  31031  62062  124124 
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 124124 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.

124124/100000

  =  

124124 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

31031/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.24124 as a fraction.