What is 2.21352 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.21352 as a fraction equals 221352/100000 or 27669/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.21352 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.21352 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!

2.21352/1

  =  

2.21352 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

221352/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 221352 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 221352 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  23  24  46  69  92  138  184  276  401  552  802  1203  1604  2406  3208  4812  9223  9624  18446  27669  36892  55338  73784  110676  221352 
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 221352 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

221352/100000

  =  

221352 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

27669/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.21352 as a fraction.