What is 3.46256 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.46256 as a fraction equals 346256/100000 or 21641/6250

Here is the solution for converting 3.46256 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.46256 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!

3.46256/1

  =  

3.46256 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

346256/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 346256 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 346256 are: 1  2  4  8  16  17  19  34  38  67  68  76  134  136  152  268  272  304  323  536  646  1072  1139  1273  1292  2278  2546  2584  4556  5092  5168  9112  10184  18224  20368  21641  43282  86564  173128  346256 
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 346256 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.

346256/100000

  =  

346256 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

21641/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.46256 as a fraction.