What is 53.8 as a fraction?

Answer 1

The easiest way to convert a decimal to a fraction is simply to multiply it by a power of 10 until there are no numbers left to the right of the decimal place, then mark this power of 10 as the denominator. In this case, we get 538/10

This is not in it's simplest form though, as both top and bottom can divide by 2, so do this and we get 269/5

This is a top heavy, or vulgar fraction, so the next step is to subtract 5s from the numerator until it is less than the denominator. This can be done 53 times so we can write the number as a mixed fraction 53 and 4/5