What is 2.70088 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.70088 as a fraction equals 270088/100000 or 33761/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.70088 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.70088 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!

2.70088/1

  =  

2.70088 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

270088/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 270088 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 270088 are: 1  2  4  7  8  13  14  26  28  49  52  53  56  91  98  104  106  182  196  212  364  371  392  424  637  689  728  742  1274  1378  1484  2548  2597  2756  2968  4823  5096  5194  5512  9646  10388  19292  20776  33761  38584  67522  135044  270088 
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 270088 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.

270088/100000

  =  

270088 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

33761/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.70088 as a fraction.