What is 3.99465 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.99465 as a fraction equals 399465/100000 or 79893/20000

Here is the solution for converting 3.99465 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.99465 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!

3.99465/1

  =  

3.99465 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

399465/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 399465 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 399465 are: 1  3  5  9  11  15  27  33  45  55  99  135  165  269  297  495  807  1345  1485  2421  2959  4035  7263  8877  12105  14795  26631  36315  44385  79893  133155  399465 
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 399465 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

399465/100000

  =  

399465 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

79893/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.99465 as a fraction.