What is 2.68398 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.68398 as a fraction equals 268398/100000 or 134199/50000

Here is the solution for converting 2.68398 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.68398 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!

2.68398/1

  =  

2.68398 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

268398/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 268398 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 268398 are: 1  2  3  6  9  13  18  26  31  37  39  62  74  78  93  111  117  186  222  234  279  333  403  481  558  666  806  962  1147  1209  1443  2294  2418  2886  3441  3627  4329  6882  7254  8658  10323  14911  20646  29822  44733  89466  134199  268398 
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 268398 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.

268398/100000

  =  

268398 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

134199/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.68398 as a fraction.