What is 0.49842 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.49842 as a fraction equals 49842/100000 or 24921/50000

Here is the solution for converting 0.49842 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.49842 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!

0.49842/1

  =  

0.49842 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

49842/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 49842 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 49842 are: 1  2  3  6  9  13  18  26  27  39  54  71  78  117  142  213  234  351  426  639  702  923  1278  1846  1917  2769  3834  5538  8307  16614  24921  49842 
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 49842 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

49842/100000

  =  

49842 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

24921/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.49842 as a fraction.