7/28 = 25%
A fraction like 7/28, or 25%, can show up when 7 out of 28 students choose the same lunch, game, or club. It also describes situations like one-fourth of a class being absent or 25 out of every 100 items having a certain feature.
To picture 7/28 quickly, think of a whole divided into four equal parts. Since 7 is one of four equal groups of 7 in 28, the fraction represents one quarter, which is easy to estimate as about one part out of four.
A common mistake is thinking that 7/28 is 7% because the numerator is 7. The denominator matters too because it tells you the total number of parts, so 7 out of 28 is much larger than 7 out of 100.
