What is 4.09955 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.09955 as a fraction equals 409955/100000 or 81991/20000

Here is the solution for converting 4.09955 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.09955 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!

4.09955/1

  =  

4.09955 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

409955/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 409955 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 409955 are: 1  5  7  13  17  35  53  65  85  91  119  221  265  371  455  595  689  901  1105  1547  1855  3445  4505  4823  6307  7735  11713  24115  31535  58565  81991  409955 
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 409955 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.

409955/100000

  =  

409955 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

81991/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.09955 as a fraction.