What is 4.80556 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.80556 as a fraction equals 480556/100000 or 120139/25000

Here is the solution for converting 4.80556 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.80556 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!

4.80556/1

  =  

4.80556 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

480556/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 480556 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 480556 are: 1  2  4  17  34  37  68  74  148  191  382  629  764  1258  2516  3247  6494  7067  12988  14134  28268  120139  240278  480556 
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 480556 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.

480556/100000

  =  

480556 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

120139/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.80556 as a fraction.