The fraction 16/32 expressed as a percentage is 50.00%. This shows that half of anything can be written as a simple, clean percent when rounded to two decimal places.
When you reduce 16/32, you get 1/2, which is exactly the same value as 50 percent. Both the fraction and the percentage tell you that you have an equal split—one part out of two.
In everyday life, you might see this when a pizza is cut in half, a test score is 50 out of 100, or a discount halves the original price. In each case, the result is the same simple half, or 50.00%.
