What is 0.55056 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.55056 as a fraction equals 55056/100000 or 3441/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.55056 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.55056 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!

0.55056/1

  =  

0.55056 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

55056/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 55056 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 55056 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  31  37  48  62  74  93  111  124  148  186  222  248  296  372  444  496  592  744  888  1147  1488  1776  2294  3441  4588  6882  9176  13764  18352  27528  55056 
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 55056 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.

55056/100000

  =  

55056 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

3441/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.55056 as a fraction.