What is 3.00472 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.00472 as a fraction equals 300472/100000 or 37559/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.00472 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.00472 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!

3.00472/1

  =  

3.00472 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

300472/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 300472 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 300472 are: 1  2  4  8  23  46  71  92  142  184  284  529  568  1058  1633  2116  3266  4232  6532  13064  37559  75118  150236  300472 
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 300472 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.

300472/100000

  =  

300472 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

37559/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.00472 as a fraction.