What is 2.93488 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.93488 as a fraction equals 293488/100000 or 18343/6250

Here is the solution for converting 2.93488 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.93488 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!

2.93488/1

  =  

2.93488 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

293488/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 293488 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 293488 are: 1  2  4  8  13  16  17  26  34  52  68  83  104  136  166  208  221  272  332  442  664  884  1079  1328  1411  1768  2158  2822  3536  4316  5644  8632  11288  17264  18343  22576  36686  73372  146744  293488 
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 293488 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.

293488/100000

  =  

293488 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

18343/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.93488 as a fraction.