What is 0.52976 as a fraction?

Answer: 0.52976 as a fraction equals 52976/100000 or 3311/6250

Here is the solution for converting 0.52976 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 0.52976 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!

0.52976/1

  =  

0.52976 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

52976/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 52976 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 52976 are: 1  2  4  7  8  11  14  16  22  28  43  44  56  77  86  88  112  154  172  176  301  308  344  473  602  616  688  946  1204  1232  1892  2408  3311  3784  4816  6622  7568  13244  26488  52976 
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 52976 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.

52976/100000

  =  

52976 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

3311/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 0.52976 as a fraction.