What is 2.52296 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.52296 as a fraction equals 252296/100000 or 31537/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.52296 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.52296 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!

2.52296/1

  =  

2.52296 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

252296/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 252296 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 252296 are: 1  2  4  8  11  22  44  47  61  88  94  122  188  244  376  488  517  671  1034  1342  2068  2684  2867  4136  5368  5734  11468  22936  31537  63074  126148  252296 
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 252296 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

252296/100000

  =  

252296 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

31537/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.52296 as a fraction.