What is 2.52174 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.52174 as a fraction equals 252174/100000 or 126087/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.52174 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.52174 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!

2.52174/1

  =  

2.52174 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

252174/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 252174 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 252174 are: 1  2  3  6  13  26  39  53  61  78  106  122  159  183  318  366  689  793  1378  1586  2067  2379  3233  4134  4758  6466  9699  19398  42029  84058  126087  252174 
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 252174 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

252174/100000

  =  

252174 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

126087/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.52174 as a fraction.