What is 2.52525 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.52525 as a fraction equals 252525/100000 or 10101/4000

Here is the solution for converting 2.52525 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.52525 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!

2.52525/1

  =  

2.52525 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

252525/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 252525 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 252525 are: 1  3  5  7  13  15  21  25  35  37  39  65  75  91  105  111  175  185  195  259  273  325  455  481  525  555  777  925  975  1295  1365  1443  2275  2405  2775  3367  3885  6475  6825  7215  10101  12025  16835  19425  36075  50505  84175  252525 
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 252525 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 25

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.

252525/100000

  =  

252525 ÷ 25/100000 ÷ 25

  =  

10101/4000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.52525 as a fraction.