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Answer 1 · 2016-08-15T12:44:47

$125/828$

When dividing by a decimal, we make the divisor into a whole number by multiplying by a power of 10.

$8.5/56.304 xx 1000/1000 = 8500/56304$

We can work this out by cancelling using common factors:

$(8500 div 4)/(56304div4) = 2125/14076$

$(2125 div17)/(14076div17) = 125/828$

However, this is probably unrealistic manually and we would probably have resorted to using a calculator in the first place.

A fraction answer is better than a rounded off decimal.