What is 1.46688 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.46688 as a fraction equals 146688/100000 or 4584/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.46688 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.46688 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!

1.46688/1

  =  

1.46688 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

146688/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 146688 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 146688 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  32  48  64  96  128  191  192  256  382  384  573  764  768  1146  1528  2292  3056  4584  6112  9168  12224  18336  24448  36672  48896  73344  146688 
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 146688 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.

146688/100000

  =  

146688 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

4584/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.46688 as a fraction.