There were 16 total storms, meaning our denominator is 16. Since 8 grew into hurricanes, we can leave that alone. Since 5 out of 16 storms were major, 5 is our numerator.
5/16 storms were major because 8 were hurricanes and the other 3 were other kinds of storms. As a decimal conversion, about 31% of these storms were major.
How to find the percentage conversion:
Step 1: We take the fraction 5/16.
Step 2: Since our numerator is 5 and the default denominator is a maximum of 100, we can multiply 5 by 100.
5 x 100 = 500
Step 3: We can divide 100 by 16 to get our decimal conversion.
100 divided by 16 will give us 31.25, which also is representative of 31 and 1/4 added together.
Your final answer: With there being 16 storms, 5 of these storms are major (5/16). In terms of if there were 100 total storms, about 3/10 of these storms were major.