What is 4.64646 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.64646 as a fraction equals 464646/100000 or 232323/50000

Here is the solution for converting 4.64646 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.64646 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!

4.64646/1

  =  

4.64646 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

464646/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 464646 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 464646 are: 1  2  3  6  7  13  14  21  23  26  37  39  42  46  69  74  78  91  111  138  161  182  222  259  273  299  322  481  483  518  546  598  777  851  897  962  966  1443  1554  1702  1794  2093  2553  2886  3367  4186  5106  5957  6279  6734  10101  11063  11914  12558  17871  20202  22126  33189  35742  66378  77441  154882  232323  464646 
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 464646 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

464646/100000

  =  

464646 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

232323/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.64646 as a fraction.