Question

Convert the following percentage into fractions:

$7\frac{1}{2}\%$

Answer 1

Here we can write $7\frac{1}{2}\%$ = $\frac{15}{2}\%$ as $\frac{15}{200}$

Dividing its numerator and denominator by $5$.

We get,

$\frac{15÷5}{200÷5}=\frac{3}{40}$

Hence, we can write $7\frac{1}{2}\%$ in the form of fraction $\frac{3}{40}$.