What is 2.74455 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.74455 as a fraction equals 274455/100000 or 54891/20000

Here is the solution for converting 2.74455 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.74455 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!

2.74455/1

  =  

2.74455 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

274455/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 274455 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 274455 are: 1  3  5  9  15  19  27  45  57  95  107  135  171  285  321  513  535  855  963  1605  2033  2565  2889  4815  6099  10165  14445  18297  30495  54891  91485  274455 
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 274455 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

274455/100000

  =  

274455 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

54891/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.74455 as a fraction.