What is 16/32 as a percentage? It is 50.00%. The fraction 16/32 can be reduced to 1/2, and half of anything is always fifty percent when expressed as a percent.
Seeing this in everyday life is easy. If you have a pizza cut into 32 slices and you eat 16 of them, you have eaten exactly half the pizza, which is 50.00% of the whole. The same idea works with money, time, or any other quantity you might split in two.
Because the result is a clean half, the percentage comes out as a round number. Even when we write it with two decimal places, it stays 50.00%, showing that the fraction and the percent represent the same amount in different forms.
