What is 2.50656 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.50656 as a fraction equals 250656/100000 or 7833/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.50656 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.50656 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!

2.50656/1

  =  

2.50656 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

250656/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 250656 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 250656 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  16  21  24  28  32  42  48  56  84  96  112  168  224  336  373  672  746  1119  1492  2238  2611  2984  4476  5222  5968  7833  8952  10444  11936  15666  17904  20888  31332  35808  41776  62664  83552  125328  250656 
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 250656 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

250656/100000

  =  

250656 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

7833/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.50656 as a fraction.