What is 2.39274 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.39274 as a fraction equals 239274/100000 or 119637/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.39274 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.39274 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!

2.39274/1

  =  

2.39274 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

239274/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 239274 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 239274 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  14  18  21  27  42  54  63  81  126  162  189  211  378  422  567  633  1134  1266  1477  1899  2954  3798  4431  5697  8862  11394  13293  17091  26586  34182  39879  79758  119637  239274 
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 239274 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.

239274/100000

  =  

239274 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

119637/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.39274 as a fraction.