What is 1.66296 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.66296 as a fraction equals 166296/100000 or 20787/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.66296 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.66296 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!

1.66296/1

  =  

1.66296 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

166296/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 166296 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 166296 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  13  24  26  39  41  52  78  82  104  123  156  164  169  246  312  328  338  492  507  533  676  984  1014  1066  1352  1599  2028  2132  3198  4056  4264  6396  6929  12792  13858  20787  27716  41574  55432  83148  166296 
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 166296 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.

166296/100000

  =  

166296 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

20787/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.66296 as a fraction.