What is 2.38224 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.38224 as a fraction equals 238224/100000 or 14889/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.38224 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.38224 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!

2.38224/1

  =  

2.38224 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

238224/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 238224 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 238224 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  16  21  24  28  42  48  56  84  112  168  336  709  1418  2127  2836  4254  4963  5672  8508  9926  11344  14889  17016  19852  29778  34032  39704  59556  79408  119112  238224 
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 238224 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

238224/100000

  =  

238224 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

14889/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.38224 as a fraction.