What is 5.20168 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.20168 as a fraction equals 520168/100000 or 65021/12500

Here is the solution for converting 5.20168 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.20168 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!

5.20168/1

  =  

5.20168 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

520168/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 520168 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 520168 are: 1  2  4  8  11  22  23  44  46  88  92  184  253  257  506  514  1012  1028  2024  2056  2827  5654  5911  11308  11822  22616  23644  47288  65021  130042  260084  520168 
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 520168 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

520168/100000

  =  

520168 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

65021/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.20168 as a fraction.