What is 3.46766 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.46766 as a fraction equals 346766/100000 or 173383/50000

Here is the solution for converting 3.46766 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.46766 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!

3.46766/1

  =  

3.46766 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

346766/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 346766 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 346766 are: 1  2  7  14  17  31  34  47  62  94  119  217  238  329  434  527  658  799  1054  1457  1598  2914  3689  5593  7378  10199  11186  20398  24769  49538  173383  346766 
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 346766 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.

346766/100000

  =  

346766 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

173383/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.46766 as a fraction.