Let's look at the fraction 35/49. When you express it as a percentage, the answer is 71.43%. This means that 35 out of 49 parts make up about seventy‑one percent of the whole.
The fraction can be reduced by dividing both numbers by 7, giving 5/7. Whether you think of it as 35/49 or 5/7, it still represents the same portion of a whole.
In everyday terms, 71.43% is a little more than two‑thirds. If you had a pizza cut into 49 slices and ate 35 of them, you would have eaten roughly seventy‑one percent of the pizza.
Remember, whenever you see 35/49, you can quickly think of it as about 71.43% of the total.
