What is 2.56494 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.56494 as a fraction equals 256494/100000 or 128247/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.56494 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.56494 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!

2.56494/1

  =  

2.56494 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

256494/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 256494 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 256494 are: 1  2  3  6  7  14  21  31  42  62  93  186  197  217  394  434  591  651  1182  1302  1379  2758  4137  6107  8274  12214  18321  36642  42749  85498  128247  256494 
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 256494 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.

256494/100000

  =  

256494 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

128247/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.56494 as a fraction.