What is 4.85616 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.85616 as a fraction equals 485616/100000 or 30351/6250

Here is the solution for converting 4.85616 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.85616 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!

4.85616/1

  =  

4.85616 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

485616/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 485616 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 485616 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  48  67  134  151  201  268  302  402  453  536  604  804  906  1072  1208  1608  1812  2416  3216  3624  7248  10117  20234  30351  40468  60702  80936  121404  161872  242808  485616 
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 485616 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.

485616/100000

  =  

485616 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

30351/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.85616 as a fraction.