What is 2.40072 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.40072 as a fraction equals 240072/100000 or 30009/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.40072 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.40072 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!

2.40072/1

  =  

2.40072 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

240072/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 240072 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 240072 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  21  24  28  42  56  84  168  1429  2858  4287  5716  8574  10003  11432  17148  20006  30009  34296  40012  60018  80024  120036  240072 
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 240072 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

240072/100000

  =  

240072 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

30009/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.40072 as a fraction.