What is 2.1696 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.1696 as a fraction equals 21696/10000 or 1356/625

Here is the solution for converting 2.1696 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.1696 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!

2.1696/1

  =  

2.1696 x 10000/1 x 10000

  =  

21696/10000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 21696 and 10000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 21696 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  32  48  64  96  113  192  226  339  452  678  904  1356  1808  2712  3616  5424  7232  10848  21696 
The factors of 10000 are: 1  2  4  5  8  10  16  20  25  40  50  80  100  125  200  250  400  500  625  1000  1250  2000  2500  5000  10000 
So for 21696 and 10000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

21696/10000

  =  

21696 ÷ 16/10000 ÷ 16

  =  

1356/625

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.1696 as a fraction.