The fraction 9/40 is equal to 22.50% when converted to a percentage and rounded to the nearest two decimal places. This means that if you had 40 equal parts of something and took 9 of those parts, you'd have 22.50% of the whole. It's a fairly small percentage, less than a quarter of the total.
To put this in perspective, 22.50% is just over one-fifth of the total. If you were to color in 9 squares on a grid of 40 squares, you'd have filled in 22.50% of the grid. This fraction and percentage come up in various real-world situations, like calculating discounts, measuring ingredients in cooking, or figuring out probabilities in games of chance.
