Answer: 59 1/2
Step-by-step explanation:
There is not much that can be done to figure out how to write 59.05 as a fraction, except to literally use what the decimal portion of your number, the .05, means.
Since there are 2 digits in 05, the very last digit is the "100th" decimal place.
So we can just say that .05 is the same as 05/100.
The fraction is not reduced to lowest terms. We can reduce this fraction to lowest
terms by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 5.
Why divide by 5? 5 is the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD)
or Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of the numbers 5 and 100.
So, this fraction reduced to lowest terms is
So your final answer is: 59.05 can be written as the fraction
