What is 2.55348 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.55348 as a fraction equals 255348/100000 or 63837/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.55348 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.55348 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!

2.55348/1

  =  

2.55348 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

255348/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 255348 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 255348 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  41  82  123  164  173  246  346  369  492  519  692  738  1038  1476  1557  2076  3114  6228  7093  14186  21279  28372  42558  63837  85116  127674  255348 
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 255348 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.

255348/100000

  =  

255348 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

63837/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.55348 as a fraction.