What is 5 over 16 as a percentage? (5/16 as a percent)

What is 5 over 16 as a percentage?

Here we will show you how to write 5 over 16 as a percentage. The goal is to not only give you the answer to 5 over 16 as a percentage, but also explain how to do it so you can solve similar problems on your own in the future.

First, note that 5 over 16 is the same as the fraction 5/16 where 5 is the numerator and 16 is the denominator. Furthermore, "percent" means "per hundred" or "something per hundred" or "something over one hundred". It is that "something" that is 5 over 16 as a percentage. If we call that something x, then this is the equation we want to solve:

		5
		16

		x
		100

When we solve the equation above for x, we get the answer to 5 over 16 as a percentage as follows:

31.25%

See how we did that? Basically, to convert 5 over 16 as a percentage, we need to keep the ratio intact, but make the denominator 100 instead of 16. 5 over 16 is the same as 31.25 over 100, which means 5 over 16 as a percentage is 31.25%.

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More information: The answer on this page is rounded up to four decimal places if necessary. To solve the equation we created, we divided the numerator by the denominator on the left side. Then, we took that quotient and multiplied it by 100 to get the answer:
(5 / 16) * 100 = 31.25

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