What is 2.64784 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.64784 as a fraction equals 264784/100000 or 16549/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.64784 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.64784 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!

2.64784/1

  =  

2.64784 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

264784/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 264784 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 264784 are: 1  2  4  8  13  16  19  26  38  52  67  76  104  134  152  208  247  268  304  494  536  871  988  1072  1273  1742  1976  2546  3484  3952  5092  6968  10184  13936  16549  20368  33098  66196  132392  264784 
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 264784 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.

264784/100000

  =  

264784 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

16549/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.64784 as a fraction.