What is 5.24088 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.24088 as a fraction equals 524088/100000 or 65511/12500

Here is the solution for converting 5.24088 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.24088 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!

5.24088/1

  =  

5.24088 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

524088/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 524088 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 524088 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  29  36  58  72  87  116  174  232  251  261  348  502  522  696  753  1004  1044  1506  2008  2088  2259  3012  4518  6024  7279  9036  14558  18072  21837  29116  43674  58232  65511  87348  131022  174696  262044  524088 
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 524088 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.

524088/100000

  =  

524088 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

65511/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.24088 as a fraction.