What is 1.29504 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.29504 as a fraction equals 129504/100000 or 4047/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.29504 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.29504 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!

1.29504/1

  =  

1.29504 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

129504/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 129504 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 129504 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  19  24  32  38  48  57  71  76  96  114  142  152  213  228  284  304  426  456  568  608  852  912  1136  1349  1704  1824  2272  2698  3408  4047  5396  6816  8094  10792  16188  21584  32376  43168  64752  129504 
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 129504 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.

129504/100000

  =  

129504 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

4047/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.29504 as a fraction.