What is 2.42136 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.42136 as a fraction equals 242136/100000 or 30267/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.42136 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.42136 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!

2.42136/1

  =  

2.42136 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

242136/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 242136 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 242136 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  19  24  27  36  38  54  57  59  72  76  108  114  118  152  171  177  216  228  236  342  354  456  472  513  531  684  708  1026  1062  1121  1368  1416  1593  2052  2124  2242  3186  3363  4104  4248  4484  6372  6726  8968  10089  12744  13452  20178  26904  30267  40356  60534  80712  121068  242136 
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 242136 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

242136/100000

  =  

242136 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

30267/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.42136 as a fraction.