What is 3.88152 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.88152 as a fraction equals 388152/100000 or 48519/12500

Here is the solution for converting 3.88152 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.88152 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!

3.88152/1

  =  

3.88152 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

388152/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 388152 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 388152 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  9  12  18  24  27  36  54  72  81  108  162  216  324  599  648  1198  1797  2396  3594  4792  5391  7188  10782  14376  16173  21564  32346  43128  48519  64692  97038  129384  194076  388152 
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 388152 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.

388152/100000

  =  

388152 ÷ 8/100000 ÷ 8

  =  

48519/12500

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.88152 as a fraction.