What is 5.28736 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.28736 as a fraction equals 528736/100000 or 16523/3125

Here is the solution for converting 5.28736 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.28736 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!

5.28736/1

  =  

5.28736 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

528736/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 528736 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 528736 are: 1  2  4  8  13  16  26  31  32  41  52  62  82  104  124  164  208  248  328  403  416  496  533  656  806  992  1066  1271  1312  1612  2132  2542  3224  4264  5084  6448  8528  10168  12896  16523  17056  20336  33046  40672  66092  132184  264368  528736 
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 528736 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

528736/100000

  =  

528736 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

16523/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.28736 as a fraction.