What is 5.56962 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.56962 as a fraction equals 556962/100000 or 278481/50000

Here is the solution for converting 5.56962 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.56962 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!

5.56962/1

  =  

5.56962 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

556962/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 556962 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 556962 are: 1  2  3  6  7  14  21  42  89  149  178  267  298  447  534  623  894  1043  1246  1869  2086  3129  3738  6258  13261  26522  39783  79566  92827  185654  278481  556962 
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 556962 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.

556962/100000

  =  

556962 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

278481/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.56962 as a fraction.