What is 3.48168 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.48168 as a fraction equals 348168/100000 or 43521/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.48168 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.48168 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!

3.48168/1

  =  

3.48168 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

348168/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 348168 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 348168 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  24  89  163  178  267  326  356  489  534  652  712  978  1068  1304  1956  2136  3912  14507  29014  43521  58028  87042  116056  174084  348168 
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 348168 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 8

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.

348168/100000

  =  

348168 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

43521/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.48168 as a fraction.