What is 8.54128 as a fraction?

Answer: 8.54128 as a fraction equals 854128/100000 or 53383/6250

Here is the solution for converting 8.54128 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 8.54128 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!

8.54128/1

  =  

8.54128 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

854128/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 854128 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 854128 are: 1  2  4  8  11  16  22  23  44  46  88  92  176  184  211  253  368  422  506  844  1012  1688  2024  2321  3376  4048  4642  4853  9284  9706  18568  19412  37136  38824  53383  77648  106766  213532  427064  854128 
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 854128 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

854128/100000

  =  

854128 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

53383/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 8.54128 as a fraction.