What is 2.54772 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.54772 as a fraction equals 254772/100000 or 63693/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.54772 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.54772 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!

2.54772/1

  =  

2.54772 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

254772/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 254772 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 254772 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  27  28  36  42  54  63  84  108  126  189  252  337  378  674  756  1011  1348  2022  2359  3033  4044  4718  6066  7077  9099  9436  12132  14154  18198  21231  28308  36396  42462  63693  84924  127386  254772 
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 254772 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

254772/100000

  =  

254772 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

63693/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.54772 as a fraction.