What is 2.66805 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.66805 as a fraction equals 266805/100000 or 53361/20000

Here is the solution for converting 2.66805 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.66805 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!

2.66805/1

  =  

2.66805 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

266805/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 266805 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 266805 are: 1  3  5  7  9  11  15  21  33  35  45  49  55  63  77  99  105  121  147  165  231  245  315  363  385  441  495  539  605  693  735  847  1089  1155  1617  1815  2205  2541  2695  3465  4235  4851  5445  5929  7623  8085  12705  17787  24255  29645  38115  53361  88935  266805 
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 266805 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

266805/100000

  =  

266805 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

53361/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.66805 as a fraction.