What is 3.43206 as a fraction?

Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways including percentages, decimals, and fractions. The ability to convert any number from one format to another is an important math skill to have. These skills are typically thought in fifth grade math and require an understanding of place values and Greatest Common Factor (GCF).

In this article, we teach those skills step by step while demonstrating how to convert decimal 3.43206 into a fraction.

Answer: 3.43206 as a fraction equals 343206/100000 or 171603/50000

Here is the solution for converting 3.43206 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.43206 as  
3.43206/1

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!
3.43206/1
  =  
3.43206 x 100000/1 x 100000
  =  
343206/100000


Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 343206 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 343206 are: 1  2  3  6  9  18  23  46  69  138  207  414  829  1658  2487  4974  7461  14922  19067  38134  57201  114402  171603  343206 
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 343206 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.
343206/100000
  =  
343206 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2
  =  
171603/50000


Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.43206 as a fraction.

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