What is 5.80734 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.80734 as a fraction equals 580734/100000 or 290367/50000

Here is the solution for converting 5.80734 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.80734 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!

5.80734/1

  =  

5.80734 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

580734/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 580734 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 580734 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  11  14  18  21  22  33  42  63  66  77  99  126  154  198  231  419  462  693  838  1257  1386  2514  2933  3771  4609  5866  7542  8799  9218  13827  17598  26397  27654  32263  41481  52794  64526  82962  96789  193578  290367  580734 
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 580734 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.

580734/100000

  =  

580734 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

290367/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.80734 as a fraction.