What is 3.62232 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.62232 as a fraction equals 362232/100000 or 45279/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.62232 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.62232 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!

3.62232/1

  =  

3.62232 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

362232/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 362232 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 362232 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  13  18  24  26  27  36  39  43  52  54  72  78  81  86  104  108  117  129  156  162  172  216  234  258  312  324  344  351  387  468  516  559  648  702  774  936  1032  1053  1118  1161  1404  1548  1677  2106  2236  2322  2808  3096  3354  3483  4212  4472  4644  5031  6708  6966  8424  9288  10062  13416  13932  15093  20124  27864  30186  40248  45279  60372  90558  120744  181116  362232 
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 362232 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.

362232/100000

  =  

362232 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

45279/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.62232 as a fraction.