What is 5.06748 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.06748 as a fraction equals 506748/100000 or 126687/25000

Here is the solution for converting 5.06748 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.06748 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!

5.06748/1

  =  

5.06748 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

506748/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 506748 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 506748 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  33  44  66  121  132  242  349  363  484  698  726  1047  1396  1452  2094  3839  4188  7678  11517  15356  23034  42229  46068  84458  126687  168916  253374  506748 
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 506748 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.

506748/100000

  =  

506748 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

126687/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.06748 as a fraction.