What is 5.51124 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.51124 as a fraction equals 551124/100000 or 137781/25000

Here is the solution for converting 5.51124 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.51124 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!

5.51124/1

  =  

5.51124 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

551124/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 551124 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 551124 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  27  28  36  42  54  63  81  84  108  126  162  189  243  252  324  378  486  567  729  756  972  1134  1458  1701  2187  2268  2916  3402  4374  5103  6561  6804  8748  10206  13122  15309  19683  20412  26244  30618  39366  45927  61236  78732  91854  137781  183708  275562  551124 
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 551124 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

551124/100000

  =  

551124 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

137781/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.51124 as a fraction.