What is 2.40426 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.40426 as a fraction equals 240426/100000 or 120213/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.40426 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.40426 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!

2.40426/1

  =  

2.40426 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

240426/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 240426 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 240426 are: 1  2  3  6  9  18  19  37  38  57  74  111  114  171  222  333  342  361  666  703  722  1083  1406  2109  2166  3249  4218  6327  6498  12654  13357  26714  40071  80142  120213  240426 
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 240426 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.

240426/100000

  =  

240426 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

120213/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.40426 as a fraction.