What is 4.52336 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.52336 as a fraction equals 452336/100000 or 28271/6250

Here is the solution for converting 4.52336 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.52336 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!

4.52336/1

  =  

4.52336 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

452336/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 452336 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 452336 are: 1  2  4  8  16  17  34  68  136  272  1663  3326  6652  13304  26608  28271  56542  113084  226168  452336 
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 452336 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

452336/100000

  =  

452336 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

28271/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.52336 as a fraction.