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Fraction / Decimal / Percentage Converter

Convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages instantly with simplification and step-by-step work.

How to Use Fraction / Decimal / Percentage Converter

  1. 1

    Enter a fraction

    Type a fraction like 3/4 or a decimal like 0.75.

  2. 2

    Convert instantly

    See the equivalent decimal, fraction, or percentage immediately.

  3. 3

    Copy the result

    Click copy to use the converted value in your work.

Tested tool guide Tested browser tools Checked August 16, 2026

What Fraction / Decimal / Percentage Converter does, with a checked example

Enter one value as a fraction, a base-10 decimal, or a percentage to see the same quantity in all three forms. The converter performs the division or scaling, reduces fractional results to lowest terms, and shows the intermediate arithmetic so the equivalence can be checked. The most common scale error is assuming that a percent sign is only a label. It means per hundred: 0.5% equals 0.005, whereas the decimal 0.5 equals 50%. Those two inputs differ by a factor of 100.

Worked example

A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.

Input

3/8

Expected output

3/8 = 0.375 = 37.5%

Dividing 3 by 8 gives 0.375 exactly. Multiplying 0.375 by 100 gives 37.5, so the percentage form is 37.5%.

How the result is produced

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Fraction and decimal conversion

Starting with a/b, the converter divides a by b to obtain the decimal, provided b is not zero. When it creates or receives a fraction, common factors are canceled to express the ratio in lowest terms. For a terminating decimal, place value supplies the denominator: 0.375 is 375/1000, and dividing both terms by 125 gives 3/8.

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Percentage scaling

Percent means a number per hundred. To convert a decimal to a percentage, multiply by 100 and add the percent sign; to reverse the conversion, divide the percentage number by 100. Fraction-to-percentage conversion follows the same chain: divide the numerator by the denominator, then multiply by 100. The shown steps make this change of scale explicit.

Good uses

  • Checking a school exercise that requests all three representations, such as verifying that 7/20 corresponds to 0.35 and 35%, while comparing the displayed work with handwritten steps.
  • Comparing rates reported in different forms, for example translating 12.5% into 0.125 and 1/8 before matching it against a rate written as a decimal or fraction elsewhere.
  • Preparing an exact measurement or proportion for another calculation, such as changing 3/16 to 0.1875 for decimal entry while recording its 18.75% equivalent for a worksheet.

Limits and checks

  • Include the percent sign when the input is a percentage. The bare number 5 represents five, which is 500%, while 5% represents 0.05. A missing sign changes the intended quantity by a factor of 100.
  • Repeating decimals have no finite exact decimal expansion. A finite version of 1/3, such as 0.333, is already truncated or rounded and converts exactly to 333/1000, not back to 1/3.
  • A zero denominator is undefined: 4/0 has no decimal or percentage equivalent. Simplification may also change a fraction's appearance without changing its value, so 50/100 becoming 1/2 is not a different result.

Common questions

Does every fraction produce a terminating decimal?

No. After a fraction is reduced, its base-10 decimal terminates only if the denominator's prime factors are limited to 2 and 5. For example, 3/8 terminates as 0.375, while 1/3 repeats. A finite string used for a repeating value is an approximation unless the notation explicitly indicates repetition.

Will converting a rounded decimal restore the original fraction?

Not necessarily. Conversion can preserve only the digits that are entered. The decimal 0.33 is exactly 33/100, so it does not identify 1/3, even if 0.33 originally came from rounding one third. When exact recovery matters, enter the source fraction rather than a previously rounded decimal.

References and verification

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