What is 5.5848 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.5848 as a fraction equals 55848/10000 or 6981/1250

Here is the solution for converting 5.5848 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.5848 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!

5.5848/1

  =  

5.5848 x 10000/1 x 10000

  =  

55848/10000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 55848 and 10000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 55848 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  13  24  26  39  52  78  104  156  179  312  358  537  716  1074  1432  2148  2327  4296  4654  6981  9308  13962  18616  27924  55848 
The factors of 10000 are: 1  2  4  5  8  10  16  20  25  40  50  80  100  125  200  250  400  500  625  1000  1250  2000  2500  5000  10000 
So for 55848 and 10000 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.

55848/10000

  =  

55848 ÷ 8/10000 ÷ 8

  =  

6981/1250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.5848 as a fraction.