What is 2.09286 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 2.09286 into a fraction.

Answer: 2.09286 as a fraction equals 209286/100000 or 104643/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.09286 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.09286 as  
2.09286/1

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!
2.09286/1
  =  
2.09286 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
209286/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 209286 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 209286 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  11  14  18  21  22  33  42  63  66  77  99  126  151  154  198  231  302  453  462  693  906  1057  1359  1386  1661  2114  2718  3171  3322  4983  6342  9513  9966  11627  14949  19026  23254  29898  34881  69762  104643  209286 
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 209286 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.
209286/100000
  =  
209286 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2
  =  
104643/50000


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.09286 as a fraction.

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