What is 0.47652 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.47652 as a fraction equals 47652/100000 or 11913/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.47652 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.47652 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!

0.47652/1

  =  

0.47652 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

47652/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 47652 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 47652 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  19  22  33  38  44  57  66  76  114  132  209  228  361  418  627  722  836  1083  1254  1444  2166  2508  3971  4332  7942  11913  15884  23826  47652 
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 47652 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.

47652/100000

  =  

47652 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

11913/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.47652 as a fraction.