What is 2.84472 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.84472 as a fraction equals 284472/100000 or 35559/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.84472 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.84472 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!

2.84472/1

  =  

2.84472 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

284472/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 284472 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 284472 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  27  36  54  72  81  108  162  216  324  439  648  878  1317  1756  2634  3512  3951  5268  7902  10536  11853  15804  23706  31608  35559  47412  71118  94824  142236  284472 
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 284472 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

284472/100000

  =  

284472 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

35559/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.84472 as a fraction.