16 2/3% into a fraction in simplest form

Percentage is parts of 100.

An example: 2% is 2100

So we need to convert your 16 23 % into parts of 100

Write 16 23 as 16 + 23

Change into fractions of 100 parts

16100 + 23 100

But 23 100 = 23 * 1100

Now we have 16100 + 2*1 3*100

16100 + 2300

Before we can add these directly we need to make the bottom numbers the same (denominators)

Need to change the 100 in 16100 into 300.

Multiply by 1 but in the form of 33

16*3 100*3 + 2300

= 48300 + 2300 = 50300

Simplifying gives:

= 50:10 300:10 = 5/30 =

5:5 30:5 = (1/6)