What is 0.25488 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.25488 as a fraction equals 25488/100000 or 1593/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.25488 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.25488 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!

0.25488/1

  =  

0.25488 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

25488/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 25488 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 25488 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  36  48  54  59  72  108  118  144  177  216  236  354  432  472  531  708  944  1062  1416  1593  2124  2832  3186  4248  6372  8496  12744  25488 
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 25488 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.

25488/100000

  =  

25488 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

1593/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.25488 as a fraction.