What is 0.50688 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.50688 as a fraction equals 50688/100000 or 1584/3125

Here is the solution for converting 0.50688 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.50688 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!

0.50688/1

  =  

0.50688 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

50688/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 50688 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 50688 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  16  18  22  24  32  33  36  44  48  64  66  72  88  96  99  128  132  144  176  192  198  256  264  288  352  384  396  512  528  576  704  768  792  1056  1152  1408  1536  1584  2112  2304  2816  3168  4224  4608  5632  6336  8448  12672  16896  25344  50688 
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 50688 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

50688/100000

  =  

50688 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

1584/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.50688 as a fraction.