The fraction 15/56 is equal to 26.79% when converted to a percentage and rounded to two decimal places. This means that if you had 56 items and selected 15 of them, you'd have chosen about 26.79% of the total. It's a bit more than a quarter of the whole, but not quite as much as 30%.
In everyday situations, you might come across this fraction or percentage in various contexts. For example, if 15 out of 56 students in a class wore glasses, you could say that 26.79% of the class wears glasses. Or if a store sold 15 out of their 56 available concert tickets, they could report that 26.79% of the tickets were sold. This fraction and its equivalent percentage are useful for expressing parts of a whole in different ways.
