What is 2.44872 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.44872 as a fraction equals 244872/100000 or 30609/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.44872 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.44872 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!

2.44872/1

  =  

2.44872 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

244872/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 244872 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 244872 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  19  24  36  38  57  72  76  114  152  171  179  228  342  358  456  537  684  716  1074  1368  1432  1611  2148  3222  3401  4296  6444  6802  10203  12888  13604  20406  27208  30609  40812  61218  81624  122436  244872 
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 244872 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.

244872/100000

  =  

244872 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

30609/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.44872 as a fraction.