What is 1.87768 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.87768 as a fraction equals 187768/100000 or 23471/12500

Here is the solution for converting 1.87768 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.87768 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!

1.87768/1

  =  

1.87768 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

187768/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 187768 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 187768 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  28  49  56  98  196  392  479  958  1916  3353  3832  6706  13412  23471  26824  46942  93884  187768 
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 187768 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

187768/100000

  =  

187768 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

23471/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.87768 as a fraction.