What is 5 percent as a fraction?

5 percent means 5 per hundred or 5 per 100. That means that you can simply write 5 over 100 to get a fraction like so:

5/100

It is that easy, but we like to take it one step further. We simplified the fraction above with an up-to-3-digit rounding accuracy in the denominator to get the following answer:

5% ≈ 1/20

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