What is 2.54826 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.54826 as a fraction equals 254826/100000 or 127413/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.54826 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.54826 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!

2.54826/1

  =  

2.54826 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

254826/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 254826 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 254826 are: 1  2  3  6  9  11  13  18  22  26  27  33  39  54  66  78  81  99  117  121  143  162  198  234  242  286  297  351  363  429  594  702  726  858  891  1053  1089  1287  1573  1782  2106  2178  2574  3146  3267  3861  4719  6534  7722  9438  9801  11583  14157  19602  23166  28314  42471  84942  127413  254826 
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 254826 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

254826/100000

  =  

254826 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

127413/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.54826 as a fraction.