What is 5.51034 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.51034 as a fraction equals 551034/100000 or 275517/50000

Here is the solution for converting 5.51034 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.51034 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!

5.51034/1

  =  

5.51034 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

551034/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 551034 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 551034 are: 1  2  3  6  9  11  18  22  23  33  46  66  69  99  121  138  198  207  242  253  363  414  506  726  759  1089  1331  1518  2178  2277  2662  2783  3993  4554  5566  7986  8349  11979  16698  23958  25047  30613  50094  61226  91839  183678  275517  551034 
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 551034 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.

551034/100000

  =  

551034 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

275517/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.51034 as a fraction.