What is 2.40588 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.40588 as a fraction equals 240588/100000 or 60147/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.40588 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.40588 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!

2.40588/1

  =  

2.40588 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

240588/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 240588 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 240588 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  41  82  123  163  164  246  326  369  489  492  652  738  978  1467  1476  1956  2934  5868  6683  13366  20049  26732  40098  60147  80196  120294  240588 
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 240588 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.

240588/100000

  =  

240588 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

60147/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.40588 as a fraction.