What is 0.41496 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.41496 as a fraction equals 41496/100000 or 5187/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.41496 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.41496 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!

0.41496/1

  =  

0.41496 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

41496/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 41496 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 41496 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  13  14  19  21  24  26  28  38  39  42  52  56  57  76  78  84  91  104  114  133  152  156  168  182  228  247  266  273  312  364  399  456  494  532  546  728  741  798  988  1064  1092  1482  1596  1729  1976  2184  2964  3192  3458  5187  5928  6916  10374  13832  20748  41496 
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 41496 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

41496/100000

  =  

41496 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

5187/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.41496 as a fraction.