The fraction 31/79 can be expressed as a percentage: 39.24%. This percentage is rounded to the nearest two decimal places for simplicity. When we think about fractions as parts of a whole, 31/79 represents about 39 out of every 100 parts.
In everyday life, we often use percentages to describe things like test scores, discounts, or probabilities. For example, if you scored 31 out of 79 questions correctly on a test, you'd have gotten about 39.24% of the answers right. This fraction and its percentage equivalent can be useful in various situations where we need to express a part-to-whole relationship or compare different quantities.