What is 2.47656 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.47656 as a fraction equals 247656/100000 or 30957/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.47656 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.47656 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!

2.47656/1

  =  

2.47656 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

247656/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 247656 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 247656 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  17  24  34  51  68  102  136  204  408  607  1214  1821  2428  3642  4856  7284  10319  14568  20638  30957  41276  61914  82552  123828  247656 
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 247656 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.

247656/100000

  =  

247656 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

30957/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.47656 as a fraction.