The fraction 71/87 is equal to 81.61% when converted to a percentage and rounded to two decimal places. This means that if you had 87 equal parts of something and took 71 of those parts, you'd have about 81.61% of the whole. It's a pretty high percentage, showing that 71/87 represents a significant portion of the total.
To put this in perspective, 81.61% is more than three-quarters but less than seven-eighths of the whole. It's close to 82%, which might be easier to visualize. In everyday situations, you could think of it as getting 71 correct answers out of 87 questions on a test, or having 71 sunny days out of 87 days in summer. This fraction and its percentage equivalent can be useful in various real-world applications where you need to express a part of a whole.