What is 2.24688 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.24688 as a fraction equals 224688/100000 or 14043/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.24688 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.24688 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!

2.24688/1

  =  

2.24688 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

224688/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 224688 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 224688 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  31  48  62  93  124  151  186  248  302  372  453  496  604  744  906  1208  1488  1812  2416  3624  4681  7248  9362  14043  18724  28086  37448  56172  74896  112344  224688 
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 224688 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.

224688/100000

  =  

224688 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

14043/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.24688 as a fraction.