What is 3.24852 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.24852 as a fraction equals 324852/100000 or 81213/25000

Here is the solution for converting 3.24852 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.24852 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!

3.24852/1

  =  

3.24852 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

324852/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 324852 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 324852 are: 1  2  3  4  6  11  12  22  23  33  44  46  66  69  92  107  132  138  214  253  276  321  428  506  642  759  1012  1177  1284  1518  2354  2461  3036  3531  4708  4922  7062  7383  9844  14124  14766  27071  29532  54142  81213  108284  162426  324852 
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 324852 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.

324852/100000

  =  

324852 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

81213/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.24852 as a fraction.