What is 3.29508 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.29508 as a fraction equals 329508/100000 or 82377/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.29508 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.29508 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!

3.29508/1

  =  

3.29508 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

329508/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 329508 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 329508 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  27  36  54  81  108  113  162  226  243  324  339  452  486  678  729  972  1017  1356  1458  2034  2916  3051  4068  6102  9153  12204  18306  27459  36612  54918  82377  109836  164754  329508 
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 329508 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

329508/100000

  =  

329508 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

82377/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.29508 as a fraction.