What is 3.08385 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.08385 as a fraction equals 308385/100000 or 61677/20000

Here is the solution for converting 3.08385 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.08385 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!

3.08385/1

  =  

3.08385 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

308385/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 308385 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 308385 are: 1  3  5  7  9  11  15  21  33  35  45  55  63  77  89  99  105  165  231  267  315  385  445  495  623  693  801  979  1155  1335  1869  2937  3115  3465  4005  4895  5607  6853  8811  9345  14685  20559  28035  34265  44055  61677  102795  308385 
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 308385 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

308385/100000

  =  

308385 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

61677/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.08385 as a fraction.