What is 3.58128 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.58128 as a fraction equals 358128/100000 or 22383/6250

Here is the solution for converting 3.58128 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.58128 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!

3.58128/1

  =  

3.58128 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

358128/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 358128 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 358128 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  36  48  54  72  108  144  216  432  829  1658  2487  3316  4974  6632  7461  9948  13264  14922  19896  22383  29844  39792  44766  59688  89532  119376  179064  358128 
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 358128 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 16

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.

358128/100000

  =  

358128 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

22383/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.58128 as a fraction.