What is 2.75648 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.75648 as a fraction equals 275648/100000 or 8614/3125

Here is the solution for converting 2.75648 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.75648 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!

2.75648/1

  =  

2.75648 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

275648/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 275648 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 275648 are: 1  2  4  8  16  32  59  64  73  118  146  236  292  472  584  944  1168  1888  2336  3776  4307  4672  8614  17228  34456  68912  137824  275648 
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 275648 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.

275648/100000

  =  

275648 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

8614/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.75648 as a fraction.