What is 3.84252 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.84252 as a fraction equals 384252/100000 or 96063/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.84252 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.84252 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!

3.84252/1

  =  

3.84252 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

384252/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 384252 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 384252 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  33  41  44  66  71  82  123  132  142  164  213  246  284  426  451  492  781  852  902  1353  1562  1804  2343  2706  2911  3124  4686  5412  5822  8733  9372  11644  17466  32021  34932  64042  96063  128084  192126  384252 
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 384252 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

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.

384252/100000

  =  

384252 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

96063/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.84252 as a fraction.