What is 2.39316 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.39316 as a fraction equals 239316/100000 or 59829/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.39316 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.39316 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!

2.39316/1

  =  

2.39316 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

239316/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 239316 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 239316 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  11  12  14  21  22  28  33  37  42  44  49  66  74  77  84  98  111  132  147  148  154  196  222  231  259  294  308  407  444  462  518  539  588  777  814  924  1036  1078  1221  1554  1617  1628  1813  2156  2442  2849  3108  3234  3626  4884  5439  5698  6468  7252  8547  10878  11396  17094  19943  21756  34188  39886  59829  79772  119658  239316 
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 239316 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

239316/100000

  =  

239316 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

59829/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.39316 as a fraction.