What is 2.25552 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.25552 as a fraction equals 225552/100000 or 14097/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.25552 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.25552 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!

2.25552/1

  =  

2.25552 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

225552/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 225552 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 225552 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  37  48  74  111  127  148  222  254  296  381  444  508  592  762  888  1016  1524  1776  2032  3048  4699  6096  9398  14097  18796  28194  37592  56388  75184  112776  225552 
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 225552 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.

225552/100000

  =  

225552 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

14097/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.25552 as a fraction.