What is 3.94828 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.94828 as a fraction equals 394828/100000 or 98707/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.94828 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.94828 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!

3.94828/1

  =  

3.94828 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

394828/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 394828 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 394828 are: 1  2  4  7  14  28  59  118  236  239  413  478  826  956  1652  1673  3346  6692  14101  28202  56404  98707  197414  394828 
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 394828 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.

394828/100000

  =  

394828 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

98707/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.94828 as a fraction.