What is 2.30048 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.30048 as a fraction equals 230048/100000 or 7189/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.30048 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.30048 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!

2.30048/1

  =  

2.30048 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

230048/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 230048 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 230048 are: 1  2  4  7  8  13  14  16  26  28  32  52  56  79  91  104  112  158  182  208  224  316  364  416  553  632  728  1027  1106  1264  1456  2054  2212  2528  2912  4108  4424  7189  8216  8848  14378  16432  17696  28756  32864  57512  115024  230048 
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 230048 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.

230048/100000

  =  

230048 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

7189/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.30048 as a fraction.