What is 5.73248 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.73248 as a fraction equals 573248/100000 or 17914/3125

Here is the solution for converting 5.73248 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.73248 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!

5.73248/1

  =  

5.73248 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

573248/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 573248 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 573248 are: 1  2  4  8  13  16  26  32  52  53  64  104  106  169  208  212  338  416  424  676  689  832  848  1352  1378  1696  2704  2756  3392  5408  5512  8957  10816  11024  17914  22048  35828  44096  71656  143312  286624  573248 
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 573248 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.

573248/100000

  =  

573248 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

17914/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.73248 as a fraction.