What is 3.52344 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.52344 as a fraction equals 352344/100000 or 44043/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.52344 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.52344 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!

3.52344/1

  =  

3.52344 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

352344/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 352344 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 352344 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  24  53  106  159  212  277  318  424  554  636  831  1108  1272  1662  2216  3324  6648  14681  29362  44043  58724  88086  117448  176172  352344 
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 352344 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.

352344/100000

  =  

352344 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

44043/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.52344 as a fraction.