What is 4.98864 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.98864 as a fraction equals 498864/100000 or 31179/6250

Here is the solution for converting 4.98864 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.98864 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!

4.98864/1

  =  

4.98864 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

498864/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 498864 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 498864 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  19  24  38  48  57  76  114  152  228  304  456  547  912  1094  1641  2188  3282  4376  6564  8752  10393  13128  20786  26256  31179  41572  62358  83144  124716  166288  249432  498864 
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 498864 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.

498864/100000

  =  

498864 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

31179/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.98864 as a fraction.