What is 1.26882 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.26882 as a fraction equals 126882/100000 or 63441/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.26882 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.26882 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!

1.26882/1

  =  

1.26882 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

126882/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 126882 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 126882 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  14  18  19  21  38  42  53  57  63  106  114  126  133  159  171  266  318  342  371  399  477  742  798  954  1007  1113  1197  2014  2226  2394  3021  3339  6042  6678  7049  9063  14098  18126  21147  42294  63441  126882 
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 126882 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

126882/100000

  =  

126882 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

63441/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.26882 as a fraction.