What is 3.56345 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.56345 as a fraction equals 356345/100000 or 71269/20000

Here is the solution for converting 3.56345 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.56345 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!

3.56345/1

  =  

3.56345 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

356345/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 356345 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 356345 are: 1  5  11  19  31  55  95  121  155  209  341  589  605  1045  1705  2299  2945  3751  6479  11495  18755  32395  71269  356345 
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 356345 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 5

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.

356345/100000

  =  

356345 ÷ 5/100000 ÷ 5

  =  

71269/20000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.56345 as a fraction.