What is 1.60968 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.60968 as a fraction equals 160968/100000 or 20121/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.60968 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.60968 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!

1.60968/1

  =  

1.60968 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

160968/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 160968 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 160968 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  19  24  38  57  76  114  152  228  353  456  706  1059  1412  2118  2824  4236  6707  8472  13414  20121  26828  40242  53656  80484  160968 
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 160968 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.

160968/100000

  =  

160968 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

20121/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.60968 as a fraction.