What is 4.23144 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.23144 as a fraction equals 423144/100000 or 52893/12500

Here is the solution for converting 4.23144 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.23144 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!

4.23144/1

  =  

4.23144 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

423144/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 423144 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 423144 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  27  36  54  72  81  108  162  216  324  648  653  1306  1959  2612  3918  5224  5877  7836  11754  15672  17631  23508  35262  47016  52893  70524  105786  141048  211572  423144 
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 423144 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

423144/100000

  =  

423144 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

52893/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.23144 as a fraction.