What is 3.46698 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.46698 as a fraction equals 346698/100000 or 173349/50000

Here is the solution for converting 3.46698 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.46698 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!

3.46698/1

  =  

3.46698 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

346698/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 346698 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 346698 are: 1  2  3  6  9  11  17  18  22  33  34  51  66  99  102  103  153  187  198  206  306  309  374  561  618  927  1122  1133  1683  1751  1854  2266  3366  3399  3502  5253  6798  10197  10506  15759  19261  20394  31518  38522  57783  115566  173349  346698 
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 346698 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.

346698/100000

  =  

346698 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

173349/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.46698 as a fraction.