What is 2.47095 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.47095 as a fraction equals 247095/100000 or 49419/20000

Here is the solution for converting 2.47095 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.47095 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!

2.47095/1

  =  

2.47095 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

247095/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 247095 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 247095 are: 1  3  5  9  15  17  19  45  51  57  85  95  153  171  255  285  289  323  765  855  867  969  1445  1615  2601  2907  4335  4845  5491  13005  14535  16473  27455  49419  82365  247095 
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 247095 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

247095/100000

  =  

247095 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

49419/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.47095 as a fraction.