What is 1.75584 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.75584 as a fraction equals 175584/100000 or 5487/3125

Here is the solution for converting 1.75584 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.75584 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!

1.75584/1

  =  

1.75584 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

175584/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 175584 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 175584 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  31  32  48  59  62  93  96  118  124  177  186  236  248  354  372  472  496  708  744  944  992  1416  1488  1829  1888  2832  2976  3658  5487  5664  7316  10974  14632  21948  29264  43896  58528  87792  175584 
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 175584 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

175584/100000

  =  

175584 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

5487/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.75584 as a fraction.