What is 2.04732 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.04732 as a fraction equals 204732/100000 or 51183/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.04732 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.04732 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!

2.04732/1

  =  

2.04732 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

204732/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 204732 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 204732 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  11  12  18  22  33  36  44  47  66  94  99  121  132  141  188  198  242  282  363  396  423  484  517  564  726  846  1034  1089  1452  1551  1692  2068  2178  3102  4356  4653  5687  6204  9306  11374  17061  18612  22748  34122  51183  68244  102366  204732 
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 204732 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.

204732/100000

  =  

204732 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

51183/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.04732 as a fraction.