What is 5.39316 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.39316 as a fraction equals 539316/100000 or 134829/25000

Here is the solution for converting 5.39316 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.39316 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!

5.39316/1

  =  

5.39316 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

539316/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 539316 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 539316 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  71  142  211  213  284  422  426  633  639  844  852  1266  1278  1899  2532  2556  3798  7596  14981  29962  44943  59924  89886  134829  179772  269658  539316 
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 539316 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.

539316/100000

  =  

539316 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

134829/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.39316 as a fraction.