What is 3.35556 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.35556 as a fraction equals 335556/100000 or 83889/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.35556 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.35556 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!

3.35556/1

  =  

3.35556 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

335556/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 335556 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 335556 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  13  18  26  27  36  39  52  54  78  108  117  156  234  239  351  468  478  702  717  956  1404  1434  2151  2868  3107  4302  6214  6453  8604  9321  12428  12906  18642  25812  27963  37284  55926  83889  111852  167778  335556 
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 335556 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.

335556/100000

  =  

335556 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

83889/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.35556 as a fraction.