What is 5.40496 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.40496 as a fraction equals 540496/100000 or 33781/6250

Here is the solution for converting 5.40496 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.40496 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!

5.40496/1

  =  

5.40496 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

540496/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 540496 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 540496 are: 1  2  4  8  11  16  22  37  44  74  83  88  148  166  176  296  332  407  592  664  814  913  1328  1628  1826  3071  3256  3652  6142  6512  7304  12284  14608  24568  33781  49136  67562  135124  270248  540496 
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 540496 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.

540496/100000

  =  

540496 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

33781/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.40496 as a fraction.