What is 2.66772 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.66772 as a fraction equals 266772/100000 or 66693/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.66772 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.66772 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!

2.66772/1

  =  

2.66772 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

266772/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 266772 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 266772 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  33  43  44  47  66  86  94  129  132  141  172  188  258  282  473  516  517  564  946  1034  1419  1551  1892  2021  2068  2838  3102  4042  5676  6063  6204  8084  12126  22231  24252  44462  66693  88924  133386  266772 
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 266772 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.

266772/100000

  =  

266772 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

66693/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.66772 as a fraction.