What is 4.54938 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.54938 as a fraction equals 454938/100000 or 227469/50000

Here is the solution for converting 4.54938 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.54938 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!

4.54938/1

  =  

4.54938 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

454938/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 454938 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 454938 are: 1  2  3  6  11  22  33  61  66  113  122  183  226  339  366  671  678  1243  1342  2013  2486  3729  4026  6893  7458  13786  20679  41358  75823  151646  227469  454938 
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 454938 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

454938/100000

  =  

454938 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

227469/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.54938 as a fraction.