What is 1.63248 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.63248 as a fraction equals 163248/100000 or 10203/6250

Here is the solution for converting 1.63248 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.63248 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!

1.63248/1

  =  

1.63248 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

163248/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 163248 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 163248 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  19  24  38  48  57  76  114  152  179  228  304  358  456  537  716  912  1074  1432  2148  2864  3401  4296  6802  8592  10203  13604  20406  27208  40812  54416  81624  163248 
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 163248 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.

163248/100000

  =  

163248 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

10203/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.63248 as a fraction.