What is 2.48864 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.48864 as a fraction equals 248864/100000 or 7777/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.48864 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.48864 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!

2.48864/1

  =  

2.48864 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

248864/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 248864 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 248864 are: 1  2  4  7  8  11  14  16  22  28  32  44  56  77  88  101  112  154  176  202  224  308  352  404  616  707  808  1111  1232  1414  1616  2222  2464  2828  3232  4444  5656  7777  8888  11312  15554  17776  22624  31108  35552  62216  124432  248864 
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 248864 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

248864/100000

  =  

248864 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

7777/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.48864 as a fraction.