What is 0.52316 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.52316 as a fraction equals 52316/100000 or 13079/25000

Here is the solution for converting 0.52316 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.52316 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!

0.52316/1

  =  

0.52316 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

52316/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 52316 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 52316 are: 1  2  4  11  22  29  41  44  58  82  116  164  319  451  638  902  1189  1276  1804  2378  4756  13079  26158  52316 
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 52316 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.

52316/100000

  =  

52316 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

13079/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.52316 as a fraction.