What is 2.49612 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.49612 as a fraction equals 249612/100000 or 62403/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.49612 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.49612 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!

2.49612/1

  =  

2.49612 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

249612/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 249612 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 249612 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  31  33  44  61  62  66  93  122  124  132  183  186  244  341  366  372  671  682  732  1023  1342  1364  1891  2013  2046  2684  3782  4026  4092  5673  7564  8052  11346  20801  22692  41602  62403  83204  124806  249612 
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 249612 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.

249612/100000

  =  

249612 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

62403/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.49612 as a fraction.