What is 5.90964 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.90964 as a fraction equals 590964/100000 or 147741/25000

Here is the solution for converting 5.90964 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.90964 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!

5.90964/1

  =  

5.90964 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

590964/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 590964 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 590964 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  33  37  44  66  74  111  121  132  148  222  242  363  407  444  484  726  814  1221  1331  1452  1628  2442  2662  3993  4477  4884  5324  7986  8954  13431  15972  17908  26862  49247  53724  98494  147741  196988  295482  590964 
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 590964 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.

590964/100000

  =  

590964 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

147741/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.90964 as a fraction.