What is 3.20736 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.20736 as a fraction equals 320736/100000 or 10023/3125

Here is the solution for converting 3.20736 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.20736 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!

3.20736/1

  =  

3.20736 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

320736/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 320736 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 320736 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  13  16  24  26  32  39  48  52  78  96  104  156  208  257  312  416  514  624  771  1028  1248  1542  2056  3084  3341  4112  6168  6682  8224  10023  12336  13364  20046  24672  26728  40092  53456  80184  106912  160368  320736 
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 320736 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

320736/100000

  =  

320736 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

10023/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.20736 as a fraction.