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It’s very common when learning about fractions to want to know how convert a fraction like 17/25 into a percentage. In this step-by-step guide, we’ll show you how to turn any fraction into a percentage really easily. Let’s take a look!

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Before we get started in the fraction to percentage conversion, let’s go over some very quick fraction basics. Remember that a numerator is the number above the fraction line, and the denominator is the number below the fraction line. We’ll use this later in the tutorial.

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When we are using percentages, what we are really saying is that the percentage is a fraction of 100. “Percent” means per hundred, and so 50% is the same as saying 50/100 or 5/10 in fraction form.

So, since our denominator in 17/25 is 25, we could adjust the fraction to make the denominator 100. To do that, we divide 100 by the denominator:

100 ÷ 25 = 4

Once we have that, we can multiple both the numerator and denominator by this multiple:

Now we can see that our fraction is 68/100, which means that 17/25 as a percentage is 68%.

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We can also work this out in a simpler way by first converting the fraction 17/25 to a decimal. To do that, we simply divide the numerator by the denominator:

17/25 = 0.68

Once we have the answer to that division, we can multiply the answer by 100 to make it a percentage:

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