What is 2.74224 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.74224 as a fraction equals 274224/100000 or 17139/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.74224 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.74224 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!

2.74224/1

  =  

2.74224 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

274224/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 274224 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 274224 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  29  48  58  87  116  174  197  232  348  394  464  591  696  788  1182  1392  1576  2364  3152  4728  5713  9456  11426  17139  22852  34278  45704  68556  91408  137112  274224 
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 274224 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.

274224/100000

  =  

274224 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

17139/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.74224 as a fraction.