What is 16/32 as a percentage? It equals 50.00%. The fraction 16/32 simplifies to one half, and one half expressed as a percent is exactly fifty percent, shown here with two decimal places.
Seeing the number 50.00% helps put the fraction into everyday terms. When you think about half of a pizza, a glass of water, or a test score, you are really looking at 50.00% of the whole.
Remember that any fraction that reduces to 1/2 will always give you this same percentage. So 16/32, 8/16, or 25/50 all share the simple result of 50.00%.
