What is 0.5094 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 0.5094 into a fraction.

Answer: 0.5094 as a fraction equals 5094/10000 or 2547/5000

Here is the solution for converting 0.5094 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.5094 as  
0.5094/1

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!
0.5094/1
  =  
0.5094 x 10000/1 x 10000
  =  
5094/10000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 5094 and 10000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 5094 are: 1  2  3  6  9  18  283  566  849  1698  2547  5094 
The factors of 10000 are: 1  2  4  5  8  10  16  20  25  40  50  80  100  125  200  250  400  500  625  1000  1250  2000  2500  5000  10000 
So for 5094 and 10000 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.
5094/10000
  =  
5094 ÷ 2/10000 ÷ 2
  =  
2547/5000


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.5094 as a fraction.

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