What is 0.51216 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.51216 as a fraction equals 51216/100000 or 3201/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.51216 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.51216 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!

0.51216/1

  =  

0.51216 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

51216/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 51216 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 51216 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  11  12  16  22  24  33  44  48  66  88  97  132  176  194  264  291  388  528  582  776  1067  1164  1552  2134  2328  3201  4268  4656  6402  8536  12804  17072  25608  51216 
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 51216 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

51216/100000

  =  

51216 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

3201/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.51216 as a fraction.