What is 5.0274 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.0274 as a fraction equals 50274/10000 or 25137/5000

Here is the solution for converting 5.0274 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.0274 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!

5.0274/1

  =  

5.0274 x 10000/1 x 10000

  =  

50274/10000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 50274 and 10000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 50274 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  14  18  19  21  27  38  42  49  54  57  63  98  114  126  133  147  171  189  266  294  342  378  399  441  513  798  882  931  1026  1197  1323  1862  2394  2646  2793  3591  5586  7182  8379  16758  25137  50274 
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 50274 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.

50274/10000

  =  

50274 ÷ 2/10000 ÷ 2

  =  

25137/5000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.0274 as a fraction.