What is 2.83152 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.83152 as a fraction equals 283152/100000 or 17697/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.83152 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.83152 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!

2.83152/1

  =  

2.83152 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

283152/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 283152 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 283152 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  17  24  34  48  51  68  102  136  204  272  347  408  694  816  1041  1388  2082  2776  4164  5552  5899  8328  11798  16656  17697  23596  35394  47192  70788  94384  141576  283152 
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 283152 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.

283152/100000

  =  

283152 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

17697/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.83152 as a fraction.