What is 2.98936 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.98936 as a fraction equals 298936/100000 or 37367/12500

Here is the solution for converting 2.98936 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.98936 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!

2.98936/1

  =  

2.98936 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

298936/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 298936 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 298936 are: 1  2  4  8  11  22  43  44  79  86  88  158  172  316  344  473  632  869  946  1738  1892  3397  3476  3784  6794  6952  13588  27176  37367  74734  149468  298936 
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 298936 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.

298936/100000

  =  

298936 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

37367/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.98936 as a fraction.