What is 2.97942 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.97942 as a fraction equals 297942/100000 or 148971/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.97942 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.97942 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!

2.97942/1

  =  

2.97942 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

297942/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 297942 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 297942 are: 1  2  3  6  17  23  34  46  51  69  102  127  138  254  381  391  762  782  1173  2159  2346  2921  4318  5842  6477  8763  12954  17526  49657  99314  148971  297942 
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 297942 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

297942/100000

  =  

297942 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

148971/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.97942 as a fraction.