What is 2.24315 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.24315 as a fraction equals 224315/100000 or 44863/20000

Here is the solution for converting 2.24315 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.24315 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!

2.24315/1

  =  

2.24315 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

224315/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 224315 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 224315 are: 1  5  7  13  17  29  35  65  85  91  119  145  203  221  377  455  493  595  1015  1105  1547  1885  2465  2639  3451  6409  7735  13195  17255  32045  44863  224315 
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 224315 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

224315/100000

  =  

224315 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

44863/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.24315 as a fraction.