What is 3.42324 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.42324 as a fraction equals 342324/100000 or 85581/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.42324 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.42324 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!

3.42324/1

  =  

3.42324 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

342324/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 342324 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 342324 are: 1  2  3  4  6  9  12  18  36  37  74  111  148  222  257  333  444  514  666  771  1028  1332  1542  2313  3084  4626  9252  9509  19018  28527  38036  57054  85581  114108  171162  342324 
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 342324 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.

342324/100000

  =  

342324 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

85581/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.42324 as a fraction.