What is 5.04348 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.04348 as a fraction equals 504348/100000 or 126087/25000

Here is the solution for converting 5.04348 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.04348 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!

5.04348/1

  =  

5.04348 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

504348/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 504348 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 504348 are: 1  2  3  4  6  12  13  26  39  52  53  61  78  106  122  156  159  183  212  244  318  366  636  689  732  793  1378  1586  2067  2379  2756  3172  3233  4134  4758  6466  8268  9516  9699  12932  19398  38796  42029  84058  126087  168116  252174  504348 
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 504348 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.

504348/100000

  =  

504348 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

126087/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.04348 as a fraction.