What is 1.75956 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.75956 as a fraction equals 175956/100000 or 43989/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.75956 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.75956 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!

1.75956/1

  =  

1.75956 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

175956/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 175956 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 175956 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  31  33  43  44  62  66  86  93  124  129  132  172  186  258  341  372  473  516  682  946  1023  1333  1364  1419  1892  2046  2666  2838  3999  4092  5332  5676  7998  14663  15996  29326  43989  58652  87978  175956 
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 175956 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.

175956/100000

  =  

175956 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

43989/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.75956 as a fraction.