What is 5.41765 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 5.41765 into a fraction.

Answer: 5.41765 as a fraction equals 541765/100000 or 108353/20000

Here is the solution for converting 5.41765 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.41765 as  
5.41765/1

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!
5.41765/1
  =  
5.41765 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
541765/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 541765 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 541765 are: 1  5  7  23  35  115  161  673  805  3365  4711  15479  23555  77395  108353  541765 
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 541765 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.
541765/100000
  =  
541765 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5
  =  
108353/20000


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.41765 as a fraction.

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