What is 5.63248 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.63248 as a fraction equals 563248/100000 or 35203/6250

Here is the solution for converting 5.63248 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.63248 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!

5.63248/1

  =  

5.63248 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

563248/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 563248 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 563248 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  16  28  47  56  94  107  112  188  214  329  376  428  658  749  752  856  1316  1498  1712  2632  2996  5029  5264  5992  10058  11984  20116  35203  40232  70406  80464  140812  281624  563248 
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 563248 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

563248/100000

  =  

563248 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

35203/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.63248 as a fraction.