What is 2.40534 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.40534 as a fraction equals 240534/100000 or 120267/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.40534 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.40534 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!

2.40534/1

  =  

2.40534 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

240534/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 240534 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 240534 are: 1  2  3  6  7  9  14  18  21  23  42  46  63  69  83  126  138  161  166  207  249  322  414  483  498  581  747  966  1162  1449  1494  1743  1909  2898  3486  3818  5229  5727  10458  11454  13363  17181  26726  34362  40089  80178  120267  240534 
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 240534 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.

240534/100000

  =  

240534 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

120267/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.40534 as a fraction.