What is 4.24476 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.24476 as a fraction equals 424476/100000 or 106119/25000

Here is the solution for converting 4.24476 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.24476 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!

4.24476/1

  =  

4.24476 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

424476/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 424476 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 424476 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  13  18  26  36  39  52  78  117  156  234  468  907  1814  2721  3628  5442  8163  10884  11791  16326  23582  32652  35373  47164  70746  106119  141492  212238  424476 
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 424476 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.

424476/100000

  =  

424476 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

106119/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.24476 as a fraction.