What is 2.52448 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.52448 as a fraction equals 252448/100000 or 7889/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.52448 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.52448 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!

2.52448/1

  =  

2.52448 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

252448/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 252448 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 252448 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  16  23  28  32  46  49  56  92  98  112  161  184  196  224  322  343  368  392  644  686  736  784  1127  1288  1372  1568  2254  2576  2744  4508  5152  5488  7889  9016  10976  15778  18032  31556  36064  63112  126224  252448 
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 252448 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.

252448/100000

  =  

252448 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

7889/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.52448 as a fraction.