What is 3.18696 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.18696 as a fraction equals 318696/100000 or 39837/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.18696 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.18696 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!

3.18696/1

  =  

3.18696 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

318696/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 318696 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 318696 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  12  14  21  24  28  42  49  56  84  98  147  168  196  271  294  392  542  588  813  1084  1176  1626  1897  2168  3252  3794  5691  6504  7588  11382  13279  15176  22764  26558  39837  45528  53116  79674  106232  159348  318696 
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 318696 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.

318696/100000

  =  

318696 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

39837/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.18696 as a fraction.