What is 3.43128 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.43128 as a fraction equals 343128/100000 or 42891/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.43128 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.43128 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!

3.43128/1

  =  

3.43128 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

343128/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 343128 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 343128 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  17  24  29  34  51  58  68  87  102  116  136  174  204  232  348  408  493  696  841  986  1479  1682  1972  2523  2958  3364  3944  5046  5916  6728  10092  11832  14297  20184  28594  42891  57188  85782  114376  171564  343128 
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 343128 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

343128/100000

  =  

343128 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

42891/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.43128 as a fraction.