What is 0.43248 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.43248 as a fraction equals 43248/100000 or 2703/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.43248 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.43248 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!

0.43248/1

  =  

0.43248 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

43248/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 43248 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 43248 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  17  24  34  48  51  53  68  102  106  136  159  204  212  272  318  408  424  636  816  848  901  1272  1802  2544  2703  3604  5406  7208  10812  14416  21624  43248 
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 43248 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

43248/100000

  =  

43248 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

2703/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.43248 as a fraction.