What is 5.36424 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.36424 as a fraction equals 536424/100000 or 67053/12500

Here is the solution for converting 5.36424 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.36424 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!

5.36424/1

  =  

5.36424 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

536424/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 536424 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 536424 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  21  24  28  31  42  56  62  84  93  103  124  168  186  206  217  248  309  372  412  434  618  651  721  744  824  868  1236  1302  1442  1736  2163  2472  2604  2884  3193  4326  5208  5768  6386  8652  9579  12772  17304  19158  22351  25544  38316  44702  67053  76632  89404  134106  178808  268212  536424 
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 536424 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

536424/100000

  =  

536424 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

67053/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.36424 as a fraction.