What is 1.65432 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.65432 as a fraction equals 165432/100000 or 20679/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.65432 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.65432 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!

1.65432/1

  =  

1.65432 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

165432/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 165432 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 165432 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  24  61  113  122  183  226  244  339  366  452  488  678  732  904  1356  1464  2712  6893  13786  20679  27572  41358  55144  82716  165432 
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 165432 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.

165432/100000

  =  

165432 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

20679/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.65432 as a fraction.