What is 3.15972 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.15972 as a fraction equals 315972/100000 or 78993/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.15972 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.15972 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!

3.15972/1

  =  

3.15972 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

315972/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 315972 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 315972 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  67  131  134  201  262  268  393  402  524  603  786  804  1179  1206  1572  2358  2412  4716  8777  17554  26331  35108  52662  78993  105324  157986  315972 
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 315972 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.

315972/100000

  =  

315972 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

78993/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.15972 as a fraction.