What is 2.81988 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.81988 as a fraction equals 281988/100000 or 70497/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.81988 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.81988 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!

2.81988/1

  =  

2.81988 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

281988/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 281988 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 281988 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  9  12  14  18  21  27  28  36  42  54  63  84  108  126  189  252  373  378  746  756  1119  1492  2238  2611  3357  4476  5222  6714  7833  10071  10444  13428  15666  20142  23499  31332  40284  46998  70497  93996  140994  281988 
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 281988 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.

281988/100000

  =  

281988 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

70497/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.81988 as a fraction.