What is 3.21538 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.21538 as a fraction equals 321538/100000 or 160769/50000

Here is the solution for converting 3.21538 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.21538 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!

3.21538/1

  =  

3.21538 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

321538/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 321538 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 321538 are: 1  2  7  14  17  34  49  98  119  193  238  386  833  1351  1666  2702  3281  6562  9457  18914  22967  45934  160769  321538 
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 321538 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

321538/100000

  =  

321538 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

160769/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.21538 as a fraction.