Convert the mixed repeating (recurring) decimal number 1.18458. Turn it into a reduced (simplified) improper fraction, into a mixed number and write it as a percentage. Equivalent fractions calculator

Convert 1.18458 into equivalent fractions and write it as a percentage value

1. Write the mixed repeating (recurring) decimal number as a percentage.

Approximate to the desired number of decimal places (14).

1.18458 ≈ 1.18458585858586


Multiply the number by 100/100.

  • The value of the number does not change when multiplying by 100/100.
  • Note: 100/100 = 1

1.18458585858586 =

1.18458585858586 × 100/100 =

(1.18458585858586 × 100)/100 =

118.458585858586/100 =

118.458585858586% ≈

118.46%

(rounded off to max. 2 decimal places)


  • In other words:
  • Approximate to the desired number of decimal places...
  • Multiply the number by 100...
  • ... And then add the percent sign, %
  • 1.18458 ≈ 118.46%

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2. Write the mixed repeating (recurring) decimal number as an improper fraction.

  • 1.18458 can be written as an improper fraction.

  • The numerator is larger than or equal to the denominator.

Set up the first equation.

  • Let y equal the decimal number:

  • y = 1.18458


Set up the second equation.

  • Number of decimal places repeating: 2

  • Multiply both sides of the first equation by 102 = 100


y = 1.18458

100 × y = 100 × 1.18458

100 × y = 118.458

Get the same number of decimal places as for y:

100 × y = 118.45858

Note: 118.45858 = 118.458


Subtract the first equation from the second one.

  • Having the same number of decimal places ...
  • The repeating pattern drops off by subtracting the two equations.

100 × y - y = 118.45858 - 1.18458 ⇒

(100 - 1) × y = 118.45858 - 1.18458 ⇒

We now have a new equation:

99 × y = 117.274


Solve for y in the new equation.

99 × y = 117.274 ⇒

y = 117.274/99

Let the result written as a fraction.



Now we can write the number as a fraction.

According to our first equation:

y = 1.18458

According to our calculations:

y = 117.274/99

⇒ 1.18458 = 117.274/99


Get rid of the decimal places in the fraction above.

  • Multiply the top and the bottom number by 1,000.
  • 1 followed by as many 0-s as the number of digits after the decimal point.

1.18458 = (117.274 × 1,000)/(99 × 1,000)

1.18458 = 117,274/99,000


3. Reduce (simplify) the fraction above:
117,274/99,000
to the lowest terms, to its simplest equivalent form, irreducible.

To reduce a fraction to the lowest terms divide the numerator and denominator by their greatest (highest) common factor (divisor), GCF.


Factor the numerator and denominator (prime factorization).

117,274 = 2 × 191 × 307

99,000 = 23 × 32 × 53 × 11


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Calculate the greatest (highest) common factor (divisor), GCF.

Multiply all the common prime factors by the lowest exponents.

GCF (2 × 191 × 307; 23 × 32 × 53 × 11) = 2


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Divide both the numerator and the denominator by their GCF.

117,274/99,000 =

(2 × 191 × 307)/(23 × 32 × 53 × 11) =

((2 × 191 × 307) ÷ 2) / ((23 × 32 × 53 × 11) ÷ 2) =

(191 × 307)/(22 × 32 × 53 × 11) =

58,637/49,500


4. The fraction is an improper one, rewrite it as a mixed number (mixed fraction):

  • A mixed number = an integer number and a proper fraction, of the same sign.
  • Example 1: 2 1/5; Example 2: - 1 3/7.
  • A proper fraction = the numerator is smaller than the denominator.

58,637 ÷ 49,500 = 1, remainder = 9,137 ⇒

58,637 = 1 × 49,500 + 9,137 ⇒

58,637/49,500 =

(1 × 49,500 + 9,137) / 49,500 =

(1 × 49,500) / 49,500 + 9,137/49,500 =

1 + 9,137/49,500 =

1 9,137/49,500


58,637/49,500 ~ Equivalent fractions.

  • The above fraction cannot be reduced.
  • That is, it has the smallest possible numerator and denominator.

  • By expanding it we can build up equivalent fractions.

  • Multiply the numerator & the denominator by the same number.


Example 1. By expanding the fraction by 4.

58,637/49,500 = (58,637 × 4)/(49,500 × 4) = 234,548/198,000

Example 2. By expanding the fraction by 7.

58,637/49,500 = (58,637 × 7)/(49,500 × 7) = 410,459/346,500

  • Of course, the above fractions are reducing...
  • ... to the initial fraction: 58,637/49,500

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:: Final answer ::
Written in 4 different ways

As a reduced (simplified) positive improper fraction:
1.18458 = 58,637/49,500

As a mixed number:
1.18458 = 1 9,137/49,500

As a percentage:
1.18458 ≈ 118.46%

As equivalent fractions:
1.18458 = 58,637/49,500 = 234,548/198,000 = 410,459/346,500

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Learn how to turn a decimal number into a fraction and a percentage. Steps.

1. How to write the number as a percentage:

  • Multiply the number by 100. Then add the percent sign, %.

2. How to write the number as a fraction:

  • Write down the number divided by 1, as a fraction.
  • Turn the top number into a whole number: multiply both the top and the bottom by the same number.
  • Reduce (simplify) the above fraction to the lowest terms, to its simplest equivalent form, irreducible. To reduce a fraction divide the numerator and the denominator by their greatest (highest) common factor (divisor), GCF.
  • If the fraction is an improper one, rewrite it as a mixed number (mixed fraction).
  • Calculate equivalent fractions. By expanding it we can build up equivalent fractions: multiply the numerator & the denominator by the same number.

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