What is 3.08178 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.08178 as a fraction equals 308178/100000 or 154089/50000

Here is the solution for converting 3.08178 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.08178 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!

3.08178/1

  =  

3.08178 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

308178/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 308178 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 308178 are: 1  2  3  6  9  13  18  26  27  39  54  78  117  234  351  439  702  878  1317  2634  3951  5707  7902  11414  11853  17121  23706  34242  51363  102726  154089  308178 
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 308178 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

308178/100000

  =  

308178 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

154089/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.08178 as a fraction.