What is 2.80836 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.80836 as a fraction equals 280836/100000 or 70209/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.80836 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.80836 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!

2.80836/1

  =  

2.80836 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

280836/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 280836 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 280836 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  29  36  58  87  116  174  261  269  348  522  538  807  1044  1076  1614  2421  3228  4842  7801  9684  15602  23403  31204  46806  70209  93612  140418  280836 
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 280836 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

280836/100000

  =  

280836 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

70209/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.80836 as a fraction.