What is 0.40608 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.40608 as a fraction equals 40608/100000 or 1269/3125

Here is the solution for converting 0.40608 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.40608 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!

0.40608/1

  =  

0.40608 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

40608/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 40608 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 40608 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  32  36  47  48  54  72  94  96  108  141  144  188  216  282  288  376  423  432  564  752  846  864  1128  1269  1504  1692  2256  2538  3384  4512  5076  6768  10152  13536  20304  40608 
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 40608 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

40608/100000

  =  

40608 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

1269/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.40608 as a fraction.