What is 2.43276 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.43276 as a fraction equals 243276/100000 or 60819/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.43276 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.43276 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!

2.43276/1

  =  

2.43276 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

243276/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 243276 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 243276 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  19  22  33  38  44  57  66  76  97  114  132  194  209  228  291  388  418  582  627  836  1067  1164  1254  1843  2134  2508  3201  3686  4268  5529  6402  7372  11058  12804  20273  22116  40546  60819  81092  121638  243276 
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 243276 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.

243276/100000

  =  

243276 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

60819/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.43276 as a fraction.