The fraction 8/43 is equal to 18.60% when converted to a percentage and rounded to two decimal places. This means that if you had 43 items and selected 8 of them, you'd have about 18.60% of the total. It's a relatively small percentage, less than one-fifth of the whole.
To put this in perspective, if you think of a pizza cut into 43 slices, taking 8 slices would give you 18.60% of the pizza. Or in a classroom of 43 students, if 8 of them wore red shirts, about 18.60% of the class would be in red. This fraction and percentage can be useful in various real-world situations where you need to express a part of a whole.