What is 3.74208 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.74208 as a fraction equals 374208/100000 or 11694/3125

Here is the solution for converting 3.74208 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.74208 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!

3.74208/1

  =  

3.74208 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

374208/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 374208 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 374208 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  24  32  48  64  96  192  1949  3898  5847  7796  11694  15592  23388  31184  46776  62368  93552  124736  187104  374208 
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 374208 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 32

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.

374208/100000

  =  

374208 ÷ 32/100000 ÷ 32

  =  

11694/3125

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.74208 as a fraction.