What is 4.90698 as a fraction?

Answer: 4.90698 as a fraction equals 490698/100000 or 245349/50000

Here is the solution for converting 4.90698 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 4.90698 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!

4.90698/1

  =  

4.90698 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

490698/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 490698 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 490698 are: 1  2  3  6  9  13  18  26  27  39  54  78  81  117  162  233  234  351  466  699  702  1053  1398  2097  2106  3029  4194  6058  6291  9087  12582  18174  18873  27261  37746  54522  81783  163566  245349  490698 
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 490698 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.

490698/100000

  =  

490698 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

245349/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 4.90698 as a fraction.