Other Ways For Saying Or Looking At Something That's 16%

[FrillyPancake]

Am quite rubbish at maths, if something is 16% chance of something, whats tge other ways of looking at this number?for example 10% is one in ten etc etc etc?...

[IJKLM]

16% is one in six

[ubasses]

16% of something = 6 and a quarter

[woofgang]

just so you understand the reasoning you divided 100 (100% chance, dead cert) by your % number in your case 16 to get the 1 chance in xxx figure. 100 divided by 16 is 6.25 so you have got a 1 in 6.25 chance of it happening

[Old_Geezer]

Sixteen in a hundred.
Eight in fifty.
Four in twentyfive.
Etc..

[KARL]

I have to say I find rather incomprehensible why anyone should have more difficulty in understanding 16% (16 per 100) than, say, 1 in 6 (being an inaccurate expression of 16%). Comparing 16% with 18% is to me much easier and certainly more expressive than comparing 1 in 6 and 1 in 6 (both being rounded versions of the percentages which are actually 1 in 6.2500000 and 1 in 5.555555556 - much simpler some would perhaps say). The fraction statement is in essence incapable of differentiating small differences like the recent outcomes in referenda - if one were to resort to expressing the results in fractions then one would have to resort to multiple decimals as above, or else put them as "1 in 2 for and 1 in 2 against". Come to think of it, maybe the primitive way has some merit after all - "It's inconclusive so we have to go for a rerun, folks" !

[bhg481]

KARL - it depends what you're talking about. Road signs indicating te gradient of a hill used to be in the form "1 in 6" etc but they changed them to percentages on the grounds that the steeper the hill the bigger the number. I still find that I understand the old system better. I suspect that people talking betting odds understand the non-percentage version better as well.

[Old_Geezer]

When moving on the road, controlling the car, translating a number to a visual of the incline isn't easy. Imagining a right angled triangle is simple.