What is 2.86972 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.86972 as a fraction equals 286972/100000 or 71743/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.86972 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.86972 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!

2.86972/1

  =  

2.86972 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

286972/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 286972 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 286972 are: 1  2  4  7  14  28  37  74  148  259  277  518  554  1036  1108  1939  3878  7756  10249  20498  40996  71743  143486  286972 
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 286972 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.

286972/100000

  =  

286972 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

71743/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.86972 as a fraction.