What is 1.63128 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.63128 as a fraction equals 163128/100000 or 20391/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.63128 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.63128 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!

1.63128/1

  =  

1.63128 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

163128/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 163128 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 163128 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  21  24  28  42  56  84  168  971  1942  2913  3884  5826  6797  7768  11652  13594  20391  23304  27188  40782  54376  81564  163128 
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 163128 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.

163128/100000

  =  

163128 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

20391/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.63128 as a fraction.