What is 3.68874 as a fraction?

Answer: 3.68874 as a fraction equals 368874/100000 or 184437/50000

Here is the solution for converting 3.68874 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 3.68874 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!

3.68874/1

  =  

3.68874 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

368874/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 368874 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 368874 are: 1  2  3  6  9  11  18  22  23  27  33  46  54  66  69  81  99  138  162  198  207  243  253  297  414  486  506  594  621  729  759  891  1242  1458  1518  1782  1863  2277  2673  3726  4554  5346  5589  6831  8019  11178  13662  16038  16767  20493  33534  40986  61479  122958  184437  368874 
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 368874 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

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.

368874/100000

  =  

368874 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

184437/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 3.68874 as a fraction.