What is 2.24048 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.24048 as a fraction equals 224048/100000 or 14003/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.24048 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.24048 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!

2.24048/1

  =  

2.24048 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

224048/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 224048 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 224048 are: 1  2  4  8  11  16  19  22  38  44  67  76  88  134  152  176  209  268  304  418  536  737  836  1072  1273  1474  1672  2546  2948  3344  5092  5896  10184  11792  14003  20368  28006  56012  112024  224048 
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 224048 and 100000 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.

224048/100000

  =  

224048 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

14003/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.24048 as a fraction.