What is the simplest form of -4.06 as a fraction?

Answer 1

Let's convert -4.06 to a fraction and check things out. We'll "separate" the number like this: -4.06 = -(4 + 0.06) = -(4/1 + 6/100). Now we have two fractions. Let's expand the first one so the denominators are equal and then we can add them. As 4/1 = 400/100, we can put that back in our expression. We have -(400/100 + 6/100) = -(406/100) = -(203/50). We divided both the numerator and denominator by 2 to get the last answer, and the 203 has no factors in common with 50, so the fraction will not reduce. The answer is - 203/50. In case you can't make that out, it's the fraction 203/50 with a negative sign in front of the "bar" of the fraction.