What is 5.15504 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.15504 as a fraction equals 515504/100000 or 32219/6250

Here is the solution for converting 5.15504 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.15504 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!

5.15504/1

  =  

5.15504 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

515504/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 515504 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 515504 are: 1  2  4  8  11  16  22  29  44  58  88  101  116  176  202  232  319  404  464  638  808  1111  1276  1616  2222  2552  2929  4444  5104  5858  8888  11716  17776  23432  32219  46864  64438  128876  257752  515504 
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 515504 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.

515504/100000

  =  

515504 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

32219/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.15504 as a fraction.