What is 5.74566 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.74566 as a fraction equals 574566/100000 or 287283/50000

Here is the solution for converting 5.74566 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.74566 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!

5.74566/1

  =  

5.74566 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

574566/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 574566 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 574566 are: 1  2  3  6  17  34  43  51  86  102  129  131  258  262  393  731  786  1462  2193  2227  4386  4454  5633  6681  11266  13362  16899  33798  95761  191522  287283  574566 
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 574566 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.

574566/100000

  =  

574566 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

287283/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.74566 as a fraction.