What is 2.53456 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.53456 as a fraction equals 253456/100000 or 15841/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.53456 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.53456 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!

2.53456/1

  =  

2.53456 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

253456/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 253456 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 253456 are: 1  2  4  7  8  14  16  28  31  56  62  73  112  124  146  217  248  292  434  496  511  584  868  1022  1168  1736  2044  2263  3472  4088  4526  8176  9052  15841  18104  31682  36208  63364  126728  253456 
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 253456 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.

253456/100000

  =  

253456 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

15841/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.53456 as a fraction.