What is 1.28832 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.28832 as a fraction equals 128832/100000 or 4026/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.28832 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.28832 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!

1.28832/1

  =  

1.28832 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

128832/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 128832 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 128832 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  11  12  16  22  24  32  33  44  48  61  64  66  88  96  122  132  176  183  192  244  264  352  366  488  528  671  704  732  976  1056  1342  1464  1952  2013  2112  2684  2928  3904  4026  5368  5856  8052  10736  11712  16104  21472  32208  42944  64416  128832 
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 128832 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

128832/100000

  =  

128832 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

4026/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.28832 as a fraction.