What is 2.51304 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.51304 as a fraction equals 251304/100000 or 31413/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.51304 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.51304 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!

2.51304/1

  =  

2.51304 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

251304/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 251304 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 251304 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  24  37  74  111  148  222  283  296  444  566  849  888  1132  1698  2264  3396  6792  10471  20942  31413  41884  62826  83768  125652  251304 
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 251304 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.

251304/100000

  =  

251304 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

31413/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.51304 as a fraction.