What is 2.15698 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.15698 as a fraction equals 215698/100000 or 107849/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.15698 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.15698 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!

2.15698/1

  =  

2.15698 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

215698/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 215698 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 215698 are: 1  2  7  14  31  49  62  71  98  142  217  434  497  994  1519  2201  3038  3479  4402  6958  15407  30814  107849  215698 
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 215698 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.

215698/100000

  =  

215698 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

107849/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.15698 as a fraction.