What is 2.40816 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.40816 as a fraction equals 240816/100000 or 15051/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.40816 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.40816 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!

2.40816/1

  =  

2.40816 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

240816/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 240816 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 240816 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  29  48  58  87  116  173  174  232  346  348  464  519  692  696  1038  1384  1392  2076  2768  4152  5017  8304  10034  15051  20068  30102  40136  60204  80272  120408  240816 
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 240816 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.

240816/100000

  =  

240816 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

15051/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.40816 as a fraction.