What is 3.25248 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.25248 as a fraction equals 325248/100000 or 10164/3125

Here is the solution for converting 3.25248 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.25248 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!

3.25248/1

  =  

3.25248 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

325248/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 325248 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 325248 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  8  11  12  14  16  21  22  24  28  32  33  42  44  48  56  64  66  77  84  88  96  112  121  128  132  154  168  176  192  224  231  242  264  308  336  352  363  384  448  462  484  528  616  672  704  726  847  896  924  968  1056  1232  1344  1408  1452  1694  1848  1936  2112  2464  2541  2688  2904  3388  3696  3872  4224  4928  5082  5808  6776  7392  7744  9856  10164  11616  13552  14784  15488  20328  23232  27104  29568  40656  46464  54208  81312  108416  162624  325248 
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 325248 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.

325248/100000

  =  

325248 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

10164/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.25248 as a fraction.