What is 2.46512 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.46512 as a fraction equals 246512/100000 or 15407/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.46512 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.46512 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!

2.46512/1

  =  

2.46512 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

246512/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 246512 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 246512 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  16  28  31  56  62  71  112  124  142  217  248  284  434  496  497  568  868  994  1136  1736  1988  2201  3472  3976  4402  7952  8804  15407  17608  30814  35216  61628  123256  246512 
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 246512 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.

246512/100000

  =  

246512 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

15407/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.46512 as a fraction.