What is 4.34272 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.34272 as a fraction equals 434272/100000 or 13571/3125

Here is the solution for converting 4.34272 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.34272 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!

4.34272/1

  =  

4.34272 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

434272/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 434272 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 434272 are: 1  2  4  8  16  32  41  82  164  328  331  656  662  1312  1324  2648  5296  10592  13571  27142  54284  108568  217136  434272 
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 434272 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

434272/100000

  =  

434272 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

13571/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.34272 as a fraction.