What is 1.40796 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.40796 as a fraction equals 140796/100000 or 35199/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.40796 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.40796 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!

1.40796/1

  =  

1.40796 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

140796/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 140796 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 140796 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  3911  7822  11733  15644  23466  35199  46932  70398  140796 
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 140796 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

140796/100000

  =  

140796 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

35199/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.40796 as a fraction.