What is 3.17832 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.17832 as a fraction equals 317832/100000 or 39729/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.17832 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.17832 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!

3.17832/1

  =  

3.17832 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

317832/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 317832 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 317832 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  17  19  24  34  38  41  51  57  68  76  82  102  114  123  136  152  164  204  228  246  323  328  408  456  492  646  697  779  969  984  1292  1394  1558  1938  2091  2337  2584  2788  3116  3876  4182  4674  5576  6232  7752  8364  9348  13243  16728  18696  26486  39729  52972  79458  105944  158916  317832 
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 317832 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.

317832/100000

  =  

317832 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

39729/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.17832 as a fraction.