What is 5.75316 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.75316 as a fraction equals 575316/100000 or 143829/25000

Here is the solution for converting 5.75316 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.75316 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!

5.75316/1

  =  

5.75316 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

575316/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 575316 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 575316 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  27  28  36  42  54  63  84  108  126  189  252  378  756  761  1522  2283  3044  4566  5327  6849  9132  10654  13698  15981  20547  21308  27396  31962  41094  47943  63924  82188  95886  143829  191772  287658  575316 
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 575316 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

575316/100000

  =  

575316 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

143829/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.75316 as a fraction.