What is 0.43416 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.43416 as a fraction equals 43416/100000 or 5427/12500

Here is the solution for converting 0.43416 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.43416 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!

0.43416/1

  =  

0.43416 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

43416/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 43416 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 43416 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  27  36  54  67  72  81  108  134  162  201  216  268  324  402  536  603  648  804  1206  1608  1809  2412  3618  4824  5427  7236  10854  14472  21708  43416 
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 43416 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.

43416/100000

  =  

43416 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

5427/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.43416 as a fraction.