What is 3.15172 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.15172 as a fraction equals 315172/100000 or 78793/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.15172 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.15172 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!

3.15172/1

  =  

3.15172 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

315172/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 315172 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 315172 are: 1  2  4  11  13  19  22  26  29  38  44  52  58  76  116  143  209  247  286  319  377  418  494  551  572  638  754  836  988  1102  1276  1508  2204  2717  4147  5434  6061  7163  8294  10868  12122  14326  16588  24244  28652  78793  157586  315172 
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 315172 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.

315172/100000

  =  

315172 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

78793/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.15172 as a fraction.