What is 5.24432 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.24432 as a fraction equals 524432/100000 or 32777/6250

Here is the solution for converting 5.24432 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.24432 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!

5.24432/1

  =  

5.24432 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

524432/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 524432 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 524432 are: 1  2  4  8  16  73  146  292  449  584  898  1168  1796  3592  7184  32777  65554  131108  262216  524432 
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 524432 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.

524432/100000

  =  

524432 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

32777/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.24432 as a fraction.