What is 3.10248 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.10248 as a fraction equals 310248/100000 or 38781/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.10248 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.10248 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!

3.10248/1

  =  

3.10248 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

310248/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 310248 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 310248 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  31  36  62  72  93  124  139  186  248  278  279  372  417  556  558  744  834  1112  1116  1251  1668  2232  2502  3336  4309  5004  8618  10008  12927  17236  25854  34472  38781  51708  77562  103416  155124  310248 
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 310248 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.

310248/100000

  =  

310248 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

38781/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.10248 as a fraction.