What is 1.62564 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.62564 as a fraction equals 162564/100000 or 40641/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.62564 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.62564 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!

1.62564/1

  =  

1.62564 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

162564/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 162564 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 162564 are: 1  2  3  4  6  12  19  23  31  38  46  57  62  69  76  92  93  114  124  138  186  228  276  372  437  589  713  874  1178  1311  1426  1748  1767  2139  2356  2622  2852  3534  4278  5244  7068  8556  13547  27094  40641  54188  81282  162564 
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 162564 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

162564/100000

  =  

162564 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

40641/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.62564 as a fraction.