What is 5.18868 as a Fraction?

Answer: 5.18868 as a fraction equals 518868/100000 or 129717/25000

Here is the solution for converting 5.18868 to a fraction.
Step 1: First, we write 5.18868 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!

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Step 3: Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 518868 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 518868 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  28  29  36  42  58  63  71  84  87  116  126  142  174  203  213  252  261  284  348  406  426  497  522  609  639  812  852  994  1044  1218  1278  1491  1827  1988  2059  2436  2556  2982  3654  4118  4473  5964  6177  7308  8236  8946  12354  14413  17892  18531  24708  28826  37062  43239  57652  74124  86478  129717  172956  259434  518868 
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 518868 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

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