What is 0.51012 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.51012 as a fraction equals 51012/100000 or 12753/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.51012 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.51012 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!

0.51012/1

  =  

0.51012 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

51012/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 51012 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 51012 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  13  18  26  36  39  52  78  109  117  156  218  234  327  436  468  654  981  1308  1417  1962  2834  3924  4251  5668  8502  12753  17004  25506  51012 
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 51012 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.

51012/100000

  =  

51012 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

12753/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.51012 as a fraction.