What is 2.70432 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.70432 as a fraction equals 270432/100000 or 8451/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.70432 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.70432 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!

2.70432/1

  =  

2.70432 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

270432/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 270432 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 270432 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  32  36  48  54  72  96  108  144  216  288  313  432  626  864  939  1252  1878  2504  2817  3756  5008  5634  7512  8451  10016  11268  15024  16902  22536  30048  33804  45072  67608  90144  135216  270432 
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 270432 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

270432/100000

  =  

270432 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

8451/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.70432 as a fraction.