What is 3.02632 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.02632 as a fraction equals 302632/100000 or 37829/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.02632 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.02632 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!

3.02632/1

  =  

3.02632 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

302632/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 302632 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 302632 are: 1  2  4  8  11  19  22  38  44  76  88  152  181  209  362  418  724  836  1448  1672  1991  3439  3982  6878  7964  13756  15928  27512  37829  75658  151316  302632 
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 302632 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.

302632/100000

  =  

302632 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

37829/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.02632 as a fraction.