What is 2.73315 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.73315 as a fraction equals 273315/100000 or 54663/20000

Here is the solution for converting 2.73315 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.73315 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!

2.73315/1

  =  

2.73315 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

273315/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 273315 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 273315 are: 1  3  5  7  15  19  21  35  57  95  105  133  137  285  399  411  665  685  959  1995  2055  2603  2877  4795  7809  13015  14385  18221  39045  54663  91105  273315 
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 273315 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

273315/100000

  =  

273315 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

54663/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.73315 as a fraction.