What is 2.54696 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.54696 as a fraction equals 254696/100000 or 31837/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.54696 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.54696 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!

2.54696/1

  =  

2.54696 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

254696/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 254696 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 254696 are: 1  2  4  8  13  26  31  52  62  79  104  124  158  248  316  403  632  806  1027  1612  2054  2449  3224  4108  4898  8216  9796  19592  31837  63674  127348  254696 
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 254696 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.

254696/100000

  =  

254696 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

31837/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.54696 as a fraction.