What is 5.46104 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.46104 as a fraction equals 546104/100000 or 68263/12500

Here is the solution for converting 5.46104 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.46104 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!

5.46104/1

  =  

5.46104 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

546104/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 546104 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 546104 are: 1  2  4  8  13  26  52  59  89  104  118  178  236  356  472  712  767  1157  1534  2314  3068  4628  5251  6136  9256  10502  21004  42008  68263  136526  273052  546104 
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 546104 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

546104/100000

  =  

546104 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

68263/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.46104 as a fraction.