What is 1.42032 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.42032 as a fraction equals 142032/100000 or 8877/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.42032 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.42032 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!

1.42032/1

  =  

1.42032 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

142032/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 142032 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 142032 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  11  12  16  22  24  33  44  48  66  88  132  176  264  269  528  538  807  1076  1614  2152  2959  3228  4304  5918  6456  8877  11836  12912  17754  23672  35508  47344  71016  142032 
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 142032 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.

142032/100000

  =  

142032 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

8877/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.42032 as a fraction.