What is 2.47112 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.47112 as a fraction equals 247112/100000 or 30889/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.47112 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.47112 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!

2.47112/1

  =  

2.47112 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

247112/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 247112 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 247112 are: 1  2  4  8  17  23  34  46  68  79  92  136  158  184  316  391  632  782  1343  1564  1817  2686  3128  3634  5372  7268  10744  14536  30889  61778  123556  247112 
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 247112 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.

247112/100000

  =  

247112 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

30889/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.47112 as a fraction.