What is 2.42568 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.42568 as a fraction equals 242568/100000 or 30321/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.42568 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.42568 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!

2.42568/1

  =  

2.42568 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

242568/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 242568 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 242568 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  27  36  54  72  108  216  1123  2246  3369  4492  6738  8984  10107  13476  20214  26952  30321  40428  60642  80856  121284  242568 
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 242568 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.

242568/100000

  =  

242568 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

30321/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.42568 as a fraction.