What is 3.34572 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.34572 as a fraction equals 334572/100000 or 83643/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.34572 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.34572 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!

3.34572/1

  =  

3.34572 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

334572/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 334572 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 334572 are: 1  2  3  4  6  7  12  14  21  28  42  49  84  98  147  196  294  569  588  1138  1707  2276  3414  3983  6828  7966  11949  15932  23898  27881  47796  55762  83643  111524  167286  334572 
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 334572 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.

334572/100000

  =  

334572 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

83643/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.34572 as a fraction.