What is 5.53472 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.53472 as a fraction equals 553472/100000 or 17296/3125

Here is the solution for converting 5.53472 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.53472 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!

5.53472/1

  =  

5.53472 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

553472/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 553472 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 553472 are: 1  2  4  8  16  23  32  46  47  64  92  94  128  184  188  256  368  376  512  736  752  1081  1472  1504  2162  2944  3008  4324  5888  6016  8648  11776  12032  17296  24064  34592  69184  138368  276736  553472 
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 553472 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

553472/100000

  =  

553472 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

17296/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.53472 as a fraction.