What is 4.36275 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.36275 as a fraction equals 436275/100000 or 17451/4000

Here is the solution for converting 4.36275 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.36275 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!

4.36275/1

  =  

4.36275 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

436275/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 436275 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 436275 are: 1  3  5  7  9  15  21  25  35  45  63  75  105  175  225  277  315  525  831  1385  1575  1939  2493  4155  5817  6925  9695  12465  17451  20775  29085  48475  62325  87255  145425  436275 
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 436275 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 25

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.

436275/100000

  =  

436275 ÷ 25/100000 ÷ 25

  =  

17451/4000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.36275 as a fraction.