Let's look at the fraction 4/20. It equals 20.00% when expressed as a percentage.
The fraction 4/20 can be reduced to 1/5, which means one part out of five equal parts. This simple ratio makes the percentage easy to understand.
In everyday language, 20 % means one out of every five items. For example, if you have a bag of 100 candies and 20 % are red, you would have 20 red candies.
Remember, whenever you see 4/20, you can think of it as 20.00%, a clean and handy way to talk about a fifth of a whole.
