What is 5.25294 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.25294 as a fraction equals 525294/100000 or 262647/50000

Here is the solution for converting 5.25294 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.25294 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!

5.25294/1

  =  

5.25294 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

525294/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 525294 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 525294 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  11  14  18  21  22  33  42  63  66  77  99  126  154  198  231  379  462  693  758  1137  1386  2274  2653  3411  4169  5306  6822  7959  8338  12507  15918  23877  25014  29183  37521  47754  58366  75042  87549  175098  262647  525294 
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 525294 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

525294/100000

  =  

525294 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

262647/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.25294 as a fraction.