What is 5.84868 as a fraction?

Answer: 5.84868 as a fraction equals 584868/100000 or 146217/25000

Here is the solution for converting 5.84868 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 5.84868 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!

5.84868/1

  =  

5.84868 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

584868/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 584868 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 584868 are: 1  2  3  4  6  12  17  34  47  51  61  68  94  102  122  141  183  188  204  244  282  366  564  732  799  1037  1598  2074  2397  2867  3111  3196  4148  4794  5734  6222  8601  9588  11468  12444  17202  34404  48739  97478  146217  194956  292434  584868 
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 584868 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.

584868/100000

  =  

584868 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

146217/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 5.84868 as a fraction.