What is 5.19444 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.19444 as a fraction equals 519444/100000 or 129861/25000

Here is the solution for converting 5.19444 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.19444 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!

5.19444/1

  =  

5.19444 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

519444/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 519444 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 519444 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  47  94  141  188  282  307  423  564  614  846  921  1228  1692  1842  2763  3684  5526  11052  14429  28858  43287  57716  86574  129861  173148  259722  519444 
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 519444 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.

519444/100000

  =  

519444 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

129861/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.19444 as a fraction.