What is 4.04516 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 4.04516 into a fraction.

Answer: 4.04516 as a fraction equals 404516/100000 or 101129/25000

Here is the solution for converting 4.04516 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.04516 as  
4.04516/1

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!
4.04516/1
  =  
4.04516 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
404516/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 404516 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 404516 are: 1  2  4  7  14  28  14447  28894  57788  101129  202258  404516 
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 404516 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.
404516/100000
  =  
404516 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4
  =  
101129/25000


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.04516 as a fraction.

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