30/56 as a percentage is 53.57%. This is the decimal value of the fraction turned into a percent and rounded to two decimal places. It tells you that the fraction is a little more than half of a whole.
The fraction 30/56 can be reduced to 15/28, which still represents the same part of a whole. Thinking of it in everyday terms, if you had 56 pieces of candy and you ate 30 of them, you would have eaten about 53.57% of the candy.
In many school problems, percentages like this help compare parts of different sized groups. Knowing that 30 out of 56 is just over half lets you quickly estimate results without doing long calculations.
Remember, when you see a fraction, you can always think of its percentage version to get a clearer sense of scale. For 30/56, that sense is about 53.57% of the whole.
