What is 2.29878 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.29878 as a fraction equals 229878/100000 or 114939/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.29878 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.29878 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!

2.29878/1

  =  

2.29878 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

229878/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 229878 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 229878 are: 1  2  3  6  9  11  18  22  27  33  43  54  66  81  86  99  129  162  198  243  258  297  387  473  486  594  774  891  946  1161  1419  1782  2322  2673  2838  3483  4257  5346  6966  8514  10449  12771  20898  25542  38313  76626  114939  229878 
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 229878 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

229878/100000

  =  

229878 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

114939/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.29878 as a fraction.