What is 5.73125 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.73125 as a fraction equals 573125/100000 or 917/160

Here is the solution for converting 5.73125 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.73125 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!

5.73125/1

  =  

5.73125 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

573125/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 573125 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 573125 are: 1  5  7  25  35  125  131  175  625  655  875  917  3275  4375  4585  16375  22925  81875  114625  573125 
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 573125 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 625

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.

573125/100000

  =  

573125 ÷ 625/100000 ÷ 625

  =  

917/160

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.73125 as a fraction.