What is 2.15865 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.15865 as a fraction equals 215865/100000 or 43173/20000

Here is the solution for converting 2.15865 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.15865 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!

2.15865/1

  =  

2.15865 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

215865/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 215865 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 215865 are: 1  3  5  9  13  15  27  39  41  45  65  81  117  123  135  195  205  351  369  405  533  585  615  1053  1107  1599  1755  1845  2665  3321  4797  5265  5535  7995  14391  16605  23985  43173  71955  215865 
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 215865 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

215865/100000

  =  

215865 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

43173/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.15865 as a fraction.