What is 5.26554 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.26554 as a fraction equals 526554/100000 or 263277/50000

Here is the solution for converting 5.26554 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.26554 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!

5.26554/1

  =  

5.26554 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

526554/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 526554 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 526554 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  14  18  21  27  42  49  54  63  98  126  147  189  199  294  378  398  441  597  882  1194  1323  1393  1791  2646  2786  3582  4179  5373  8358  9751  10746  12537  19502  25074  29253  37611  58506  75222  87759  175518  263277  526554 
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 526554 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.

526554/100000

  =  

526554 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

263277/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.26554 as a fraction.