What is 3.07904 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 3.07904 into a fraction.

Answer: 3.07904 as a fraction equals 307904/100000 or 9622/3125

Here is the solution for converting 3.07904 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.07904 as  
3.07904/1

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!
3.07904/1
  =  
3.07904 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
307904/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 307904 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 307904 are: 1  2  4  8  16  17  32  34  64  68  136  272  283  544  566  1088  1132  2264  4528  4811  9056  9622  18112  19244  38488  76976  153952  307904 
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 307904 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.
307904/100000
  =  
307904 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32
  =  
9622/3125


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.07904 as a fraction.

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