What is 2.39785 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.39785 as a fraction equals 239785/100000 or 47957/20000

Here is the solution for converting 2.39785 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.39785 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!

2.39785/1

  =  

2.39785 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

239785/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 239785 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 239785 are: 1  5  7  13  17  31  35  65  85  91  119  155  217  221  403  455  527  595  1085  1105  1547  2015  2635  2821  3689  6851  7735  14105  18445  34255  47957  239785 
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 239785 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

239785/100000

  =  

239785 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

47957/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.39785 as a fraction.