We want to write the given mixed number in simplest form.
5.96
We will focus on the decimal part of this number, 0.96. To make this easier, we can keep in mind that this number can be read as 96 hundredths. This means that we can write it as a fraction with a numerator of 96 and with a denominator of 100.
Then, we can simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 4.
