What is 1.31544 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.31544 as a fraction equals 131544/100000 or 16443/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.31544 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.31544 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!

1.31544/1

  =  

1.31544 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

131544/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 131544 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 131544 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  9  12  14  18  21  24  27  28  29  36  42  54  56  58  63  72  81  84  87  108  116  126  162  168  174  189  203  216  232  252  261  324  348  378  406  504  522  567  609  648  696  756  783  812  1044  1134  1218  1512  1566  1624  1827  2088  2268  2349  2436  3132  3654  4536  4698  4872  5481  6264  7308  9396  10962  14616  16443  18792  21924  32886  43848  65772  131544 
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 131544 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

131544/100000

  =  

131544 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

16443/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.31544 as a fraction.