What is 4.30488 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.30488 as a fraction equals 430488/100000 or 53811/12500

Here is the solution for converting 4.30488 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.30488 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!

4.30488/1

  =  

4.30488 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

430488/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 430488 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 430488 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  27  36  54  72  108  216  1993  3986  5979  7972  11958  15944  17937  23916  35874  47832  53811  71748  107622  143496  215244  430488 
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 430488 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.

430488/100000

  =  

430488 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

53811/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.30488 as a fraction.