What is 2.71472 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.71472 as a fraction equals 271472/100000 or 16967/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.71472 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.71472 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!

2.71472/1

  =  

2.71472 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

271472/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 271472 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 271472 are: 1  2  4  8  16  19  38  47  76  94  152  188  304  361  376  722  752  893  1444  1786  2888  3572  5776  7144  14288  16967  33934  67868  135736  271472 
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 271472 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.

271472/100000

  =  

271472 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

16967/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.71472 as a fraction.