When you turn the fraction 9/26 into a percent, you get 34.62%. This tells you that 9 parts out of 26 are a little more than a third of the whole.
The fraction 9/26 can also be thought of as 9 slices of a pizza that has been cut into 26 equal pieces. If you were to eat those 9 slices, you would have eaten roughly one‑third of the pizza.
Knowing the percentage is useful in everyday situations, like comparing scores, measuring ingredients, or seeing how much of a budget is used. It makes it easy to understand the size of the part compared to the whole without dealing with fractions.
