3/48 = 6.25%
The fraction 3/48, or 6.25%, represents a small share of a whole. You might see a value like this when 3 out of 48 students are absent, 3 of 48 products have a defect, or a small portion of a budget goes toward an extra expense.
To picture it quickly, imagine a group divided into 16 equal parts, with only 1 part shaded. That is a little more than 6%, so it is close to one-sixteenth of the total and clearly much less than one-tenth.
A common mistake is to confuse 6.25% with 6.25, since the percent sign means “out of 100.” It is also easy to think 3/48 is larger than it really is because both numbers may look significant, but the numerator is only a small portion of the denominator.
