What is 2.24064 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 2.24064 into a fraction.

Answer: 2.24064 as a fraction equals 224064/100000 or 7002/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.24064 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.24064 as  
2.24064/1

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!
2.24064/1
  =  
2.24064 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
224064/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 224064 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 224064 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  32  36  48  64  72  96  144  192  288  389  576  778  1167  1556  2334  3112  3501  4668  6224  7002  9336  12448  14004  18672  24896  28008  37344  56016  74688  112032  224064 
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 224064 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.
224064/100000
  =  
224064 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32
  =  
7002/3125


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.24064 as a fraction.

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