What is 1.32384 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.32384 as a fraction equals 132384/100000 or 4137/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.32384 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.32384 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!

1.32384/1

  =  

1.32384 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

132384/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 132384 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 132384 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  16  21  24  28  32  42  48  56  84  96  112  168  197  224  336  394  591  672  788  1182  1379  1576  2364  2758  3152  4137  4728  5516  6304  8274  9456  11032  16548  18912  22064  33096  44128  66192  132384 
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 132384 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.

132384/100000

  =  

132384 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

4137/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.32384 as a fraction.