The fraction 7/16 is equal to 43.75% when converted to a percentage. This means that 7/16 represents about 44% of a whole, or just under half. It's a common fraction you might encounter in everyday life, like when measuring ingredients for cooking or in construction and woodworking.
7/16 is larger than 1/4 (25%) but smaller than 1/2 (50%). It's pretty close to the middle between these two fractions. In practical terms, if you had a pizza cut into 16 slices and you ate 7 of them, you'd have consumed 43.75% of the whole pizza. This fraction and its percentage equivalent are useful to know for various calculations and estimations in daily life.