What is 2.70096 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.70096 as a fraction equals 270096/100000 or 16881/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.70096 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.70096 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!

2.70096/1

  =  

2.70096 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

270096/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 270096 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 270096 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  17  24  34  48  51  68  102  136  204  272  331  408  662  816  993  1324  1986  2648  3972  5296  5627  7944  11254  15888  16881  22508  33762  45016  67524  90032  135048  270096 
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 270096 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

270096/100000

  =  

270096 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

16881/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.70096 as a fraction.