What is 3.00495 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.00495 as a fraction equals 300495/100000 or 60099/20000

Here is the solution for converting 3.00495 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.00495 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!

3.00495/1

  =  

3.00495 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

300495/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 300495 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 300495 are: 1  3  5  13  15  23  39  65  67  69  115  195  201  299  335  345  871  897  1005  1495  1541  2613  4355  4485  4623  7705  13065  20033  23115  60099  100165  300495 
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 300495 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

300495/100000

  =  

300495 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

60099/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.00495 as a fraction.