What is 2.92248 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.92248 as a fraction equals 292248/100000 or 36531/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.92248 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.92248 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!

2.92248/1

  =  

2.92248 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

292248/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 292248 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 292248 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  11  12  18  22  24  27  33  36  41  44  54  66  72  81  82  88  99  108  123  132  162  164  198  216  246  264  297  324  328  369  396  451  492  594  648  738  792  891  902  984  1107  1188  1353  1476  1782  1804  2214  2376  2706  2952  3321  3564  3608  4059  4428  5412  6642  7128  8118  8856  10824  12177  13284  16236  24354  26568  32472  36531  48708  73062  97416  146124  292248 
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 292248 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.

292248/100000

  =  

292248 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

36531/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.92248 as a fraction.