What is 4.71852 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.71852 as a fraction equals 471852/100000 or 117963/25000

Here is the solution for converting 4.71852 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.71852 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!

4.71852/1

  =  

4.71852 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

471852/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 471852 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 471852 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  17  18  27  34  36  51  54  68  102  108  153  204  257  306  459  514  612  771  918  1028  1542  1836  2313  3084  4369  4626  6939  8738  9252  13107  13878  17476  26214  27756  39321  52428  78642  117963  157284  235926  471852 
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 471852 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

471852/100000

  =  

471852 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

117963/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.71852 as a fraction.