What is 1.69596 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.69596 as a fraction equals 169596/100000 or 42399/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.69596 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.69596 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!

1.69596/1

  =  

1.69596 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

169596/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 169596 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 169596 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  28  36  42  63  84  126  252  673  1346  2019  2692  4038  4711  6057  8076  9422  12114  14133  18844  24228  28266  42399  56532  84798  169596 
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 169596 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.

169596/100000

  =  

169596 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

42399/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.69596 as a fraction.