What is 3.03876 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.03876 as a fraction equals 303876/100000 or 75969/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.03876 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.03876 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!

3.03876/1

  =  

3.03876 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

303876/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 303876 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 303876 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  23  36  46  69  92  138  207  276  367  414  734  828  1101  1468  2202  3303  4404  6606  8441  13212  16882  25323  33764  50646  75969  101292  151938  303876 
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 303876 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.

303876/100000

  =  

303876 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

75969/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.03876 as a fraction.