The fraction 1/18 as a percentage is 5.56%. This number tells you how much of a whole 1/18 represents when you look at it in terms of 100 parts.
Since 1/18 is a small part of a whole, it means you have just a little over five out of every hundred equal pieces. In everyday language, you could say that 1/18 is a little more than five percent of something.
You might see this percentage when working with probabilities, simple discounts, or dividing items into many parts. For example, if you have 18 equal slices of pizza and you take one slice, you’ve taken about 5.56% of the pizza. This makes it easy to compare tiny fractions with larger, more familiar numbers.