What is 0.43632 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.43632 as a fraction equals 43632/100000 or 2727/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.43632 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.43632 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!

0.43632/1

  =  

0.43632 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

43632/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 43632 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 43632 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  36  48  54  72  101  108  144  202  216  303  404  432  606  808  909  1212  1616  1818  2424  2727  3636  4848  5454  7272  10908  14544  21816  43632 
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 43632 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.

43632/100000

  =  

43632 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

2727/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.43632 as a fraction.