What is 3.46032 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.46032 as a fraction equals 346032/100000 or 21627/6250

Here is the solution for converting 3.46032 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.46032 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!

3.46032/1

  =  

3.46032 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

346032/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 346032 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 346032 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  36  48  54  72  81  89  108  144  162  178  216  243  267  324  356  432  486  534  648  712  801  972  1068  1296  1424  1602  1944  2136  2403  3204  3888  4272  4806  6408  7209  9612  12816  14418  19224  21627  28836  38448  43254  57672  86508  115344  173016  346032 
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 346032 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

346032/100000

  =  

346032 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

21627/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.46032 as a fraction.