What is 2.83 as a simple fraction?

Answer 1

We need to "remove" the decimal point to make this a fraction.

We can do this by multiplying by 100 (as this has the effect of moving the decimal point 2 places to the right).

So 2.83 * 100 = 283

Now, of course, we need to divide by 100 (as we just multiplied by 100) to represent the original number. This gives us the fraction of:

283/100

This fraction can not be simplified any further as the only factor common to both numbers is 1.