What is 3.84568 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.84568 as a fraction equals 384568/100000 or 48071/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.84568 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.84568 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!

3.84568/1

  =  

3.84568 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

384568/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 384568 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 384568 are: 1  2  4  8  53  106  212  424  907  1814  3628  7256  48071  96142  192284  384568 
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 384568 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.

384568/100000

  =  

384568 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

48071/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.84568 as a fraction.