8/5 as a percent

According to 'Fraction to Percentage' conversion formula if you want to know what percent of 5 is 8 you have to divide 8 by 5 and then multiply the result by 100.

Here is the complete solution:

To make it easier to calculate, you may write it as an equation:

We need to adjust the fraction to the target denominator 100. To find the required multiplier we need to divide 100 by the denominator 5:

Now we can multiply our numerator 8 by this multiplier:

so

There is also another approach - you can first multiply numerator 8 by 100 and then divide result by denominator 5 :