What is 1.47576 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.47576 as a fraction equals 147576/100000 or 18447/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.47576 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.47576 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!

1.47576/1

  =  

1.47576 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

147576/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 147576 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 147576 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  11  12  13  22  24  26  33  39  43  44  52  66  78  86  88  104  129  132  143  156  172  258  264  286  312  344  429  473  516  559  572  858  946  1032  1118  1144  1419  1677  1716  1892  2236  2838  3354  3432  3784  4472  5676  6149  6708  11352  12298  13416  18447  24596  36894  49192  73788  147576 
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 147576 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

147576/100000

  =  

147576 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

18447/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.47576 as a fraction.