What is 2.71572 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.71572 as a fraction equals 271572/100000 or 67893/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.71572 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.71572 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!

2.71572/1

  =  

2.71572 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

271572/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 271572 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 271572 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  14  21  28  42  53  61  84  106  122  159  183  212  244  318  366  371  427  636  732  742  854  1113  1281  1484  1708  2226  2562  3233  4452  5124  6466  9699  12932  19398  22631  38796  45262  67893  90524  135786  271572 
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 271572 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

271572/100000

  =  

271572 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

67893/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.71572 as a fraction.