What is 2.49872 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.49872 as a fraction equals 249872/100000 or 15617/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.49872 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.49872 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!

2.49872/1

  =  

2.49872 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

249872/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 249872 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 249872 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  16  23  28  46  56  92  97  112  161  184  194  322  368  388  644  679  776  1288  1358  1552  2231  2576  2716  4462  5432  8924  10864  15617  17848  31234  35696  62468  124936  249872 
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 249872 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

249872/100000

  =  

249872 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

15617/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.49872 as a fraction.