What is 2.60984 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.60984 as a fraction equals 260984/100000 or 32623/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.60984 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.60984 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!

2.60984/1

  =  

2.60984 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

260984/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 260984 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 260984 are: 1  2  4  8  17  19  34  38  68  76  101  136  152  202  323  404  646  808  1292  1717  1919  2584  3434  3838  6868  7676  13736  15352  32623  65246  130492  260984 
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 260984 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

260984/100000

  =  

260984 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

32623/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.60984 as a fraction.