What is 0.40572 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.40572 as a fraction equals 40572/100000 or 10143/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.40572 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.40572 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!

0.40572/1

  =  

0.40572 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

40572/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 40572 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 40572 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  23  28  36  42  46  49  63  69  84  92  98  126  138  147  161  196  207  252  276  294  322  414  441  483  588  644  828  882  966  1127  1449  1764  1932  2254  2898  3381  4508  5796  6762  10143  13524  20286  40572 
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 40572 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.

40572/100000

  =  

40572 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

10143/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.40572 as a fraction.