What is 1.68388 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.68388 as a fraction equals 168388/100000 or 42097/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.68388 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.68388 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!

1.68388/1

  =  

1.68388 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

168388/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 168388 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 168388 are: 1  2  4  11  22  43  44  86  89  172  178  356  473  946  979  1892  1958  3827  3916  7654  15308  42097  84194  168388 
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 168388 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.

168388/100000

  =  

168388 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

42097/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.68388 as a fraction.