What is 4.72932 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.72932 as a fraction equals 472932/100000 or 118233/25000

Here is the solution for converting 4.72932 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.72932 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!

4.72932/1

  =  

4.72932 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

472932/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 472932 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 472932 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  27  29  36  54  58  87  108  116  151  174  261  302  348  453  522  604  783  906  1044  1359  1566  1812  2718  3132  4077  4379  5436  8154  8758  13137  16308  17516  26274  39411  52548  78822  118233  157644  236466  472932 
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 472932 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.

472932/100000

  =  

472932 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

118233/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.72932 as a fraction.