What is 1.39728 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.39728 as a fraction equals 139728/100000 or 8733/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.39728 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.39728 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!

1.39728/1

  =  

1.39728 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

139728/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 139728 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 139728 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  41  48  71  82  123  142  164  213  246  284  328  426  492  568  656  852  984  1136  1704  1968  2911  3408  5822  8733  11644  17466  23288  34932  46576  69864  139728 
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 139728 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

139728/100000

  =  

139728 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

8733/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.39728 as a fraction.