What is 3.01596 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.01596 as a fraction equals 301596/100000 or 75399/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.01596 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.01596 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!

3.01596/1

  =  

3.01596 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

301596/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 301596 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 301596 are: 1  2  3  4  6  12  41  82  123  164  246  492  613  1226  1839  2452  3678  7356  25133  50266  75399  100532  150798  301596 
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 301596 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

301596/100000

  =  

301596 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

75399/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.01596 as a fraction.