What is 2.50432 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.50432 as a fraction equals 250432/100000 or 7826/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.50432 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.50432 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!

2.50432/1

  =  

2.50432 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

250432/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 250432 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 250432 are: 1  2  4  7  8  13  14  16  26  28  32  43  52  56  64  86  91  104  112  172  182  208  224  301  344  364  416  448  559  602  688  728  832  1118  1204  1376  1456  2236  2408  2752  2912  3913  4472  4816  5824  7826  8944  9632  15652  17888  19264  31304  35776  62608  125216  250432 
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 250432 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.

250432/100000

  =  

250432 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

7826/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.50432 as a fraction.