What is 1.48248 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.48248 as a fraction equals 148248/100000 or 18531/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.48248 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.48248 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!

1.48248/1

  =  

1.48248 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

148248/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 148248 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 148248 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  29  36  58  71  72  87  116  142  174  213  232  261  284  348  426  522  568  639  696  852  1044  1278  1704  2059  2088  2556  4118  5112  6177  8236  12354  16472  18531  24708  37062  49416  74124  148248 
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 148248 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.

148248/100000

  =  

148248 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

18531/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.48248 as a fraction.