What is 1.58704 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.58704 as a fraction equals 158704/100000 or 9919/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.58704 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.58704 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!

1.58704/1

  =  

1.58704 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

158704/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 158704 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 158704 are: 1  2  4  7  8  13  14  16  26  28  52  56  91  104  109  112  182  208  218  364  436  728  763  872  1417  1456  1526  1744  2834  3052  5668  6104  9919  11336  12208  19838  22672  39676  79352  158704 
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 158704 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.

158704/100000

  =  

158704 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

9919/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.58704 as a fraction.