What is 1.85812 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.85812 as a fraction equals 185812/100000 or 46453/25000

Here is the solution for converting 1.85812 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.85812 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!

1.85812/1

  =  

1.85812 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

185812/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 185812 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 185812 are: 1  2  4  11  22  41  44  82  103  164  206  412  451  902  1133  1804  2266  4223  4532  8446  16892  46453  92906  185812 
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 185812 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.

185812/100000

  =  

185812 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

46453/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.85812 as a fraction.