What is 4.42308 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.42308 as a fraction equals 442308/100000 or 110577/25000

Here is the solution for converting 4.42308 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.42308 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!

4.42308/1

  =  

4.42308 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

442308/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 442308 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 442308 are: 1  2  3  4  6  12  29  31  41  58  62  82  87  93  116  123  124  164  174  186  246  348  372  492  899  1189  1271  1798  2378  2542  2697  3567  3596  3813  4756  5084  5394  7134  7626  10788  14268  15252  36859  73718  110577  147436  221154  442308 
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 442308 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.

442308/100000

  =  

442308 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

110577/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.42308 as a fraction.