What is 3.18288 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.18288 as a fraction equals 318288/100000 or 19893/6250

Here is the solution for converting 3.18288 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.18288 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!

3.18288/1

  =  

3.18288 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

318288/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 318288 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 318288 are: 1  2  3  4  6  8  12  16  19  24  38  48  57  76  114  152  228  304  349  456  698  912  1047  1396  2094  2792  4188  5584  6631  8376  13262  16752  19893  26524  39786  53048  79572  106096  159144  318288 
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 318288 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.

318288/100000

  =  

318288 ÷ 16/100000 ÷ 16

  =  

19893/6250

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.18288 as a fraction.