What is 3.72816 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.72816 as a fraction equals 372816/100000 or 23301/6250

Here is the solution for converting 3.72816 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.72816 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!

3.72816/1

  =  

3.72816 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

372816/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 372816 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 372816 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  16  18  24  27  36  48  54  72  108  144  216  432  863  1726  2589  3452  5178  6904  7767  10356  13808  15534  20712  23301  31068  41424  46602  62136  93204  124272  186408  372816 
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 372816 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.

372816/100000

  =  

372816 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

23301/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.72816 as a fraction.