What is 2.34498 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.34498 as a fraction equals 234498/100000 or 117249/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.34498 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.34498 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!

2.34498/1

  =  

2.34498 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

234498/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 234498 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 234498 are: 1  2  3  6  11  17  19  22  33  34  38  51  57  66  102  114  121  187  209  242  323  363  374  418  561  627  646  726  969  1122  1254  1938  2057  2299  3553  4114  4598  6171  6897  7106  10659  12342  13794  21318  39083  78166  117249  234498 
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 234498 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.

234498/100000

  =  

234498 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

117249/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.34498 as a fraction.