Question

Convert the following percentage into fractions:

$12\frac{1}{2}\%$

Answer 1

Here we can write $12\frac{1}{2}\%$ = $\frac{25}{2}\%$ as$\frac{25}{200}$

Dividing its numerator and denominator by $25$

we get,

$\frac{25÷25}{200÷25}=\frac{1}{8}$

Hence, we can write $12\frac{1}{2}\%$ in the form of fraction $\frac{1}{8}$.