What is 4.26174 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.26174 as a fraction equals 426174/100000 or 213087/50000

Here is the solution for converting 4.26174 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.26174 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!

4.26174/1

  =  

4.26174 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

426174/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 426174 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 426174 are: 1  2  3  6  7  14  21  42  73  139  146  219  278  417  438  511  834  973  1022  1533  1946  2919  3066  5838  10147  20294  30441  60882  71029  142058  213087  426174 
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 426174 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

426174/100000

  =  

426174 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

213087/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.26174 as a fraction.