What is 2.60436 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.60436 as a fraction equals 260436/100000 or 65109/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.60436 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.60436 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!

2.60436/1

  =  

2.60436 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

260436/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 260436 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 260436 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  33  44  66  132  1973  3946  5919  7892  11838  21703  23676  43406  65109  86812  130218  260436 
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 260436 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.

260436/100000

  =  

260436 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

65109/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.60436 as a fraction.