What is 2.41472 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.41472 as a fraction equals 241472/100000 or 7546/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.41472 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.41472 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!

2.41472/1

  =  

2.41472 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

241472/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 241472 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 241472 are: 1  2  4  7  8  11  14  16  22  28  32  44  49  56  64  77  88  98  112  154  176  196  224  308  343  352  392  448  539  616  686  704  784  1078  1232  1372  1568  2156  2464  2744  3136  3773  4312  4928  5488  7546  8624  10976  15092  17248  21952  30184  34496  60368  120736  241472 
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 241472 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

241472/100000

  =  

241472 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

7546/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.41472 as a fraction.