What is 2.37984 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.37984 as a fraction equals 237984/100000 or 7437/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.37984 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.37984 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!

2.37984/1

  =  

2.37984 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

237984/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 237984 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 237984 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  32  37  48  67  74  96  111  134  148  201  222  268  296  402  444  536  592  804  888  1072  1184  1608  1776  2144  2479  3216  3552  4958  6432  7437  9916  14874  19832  29748  39664  59496  79328  118992  237984 
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 237984 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.

237984/100000

  =  

237984 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

7437/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.37984 as a fraction.