Well... given that percent comes from latin and roughly means per one hundred, in your case you would convert to a percentage by putting the number over 100 and then multiply by 100 [seems like a double redundancy I know, but it will make sense with other examples] (giving you 150%). However, if this was in fact a fraction (such as 2/7) you would divide the numerator by the denominator, and then multiply the answer by 100.
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To turn a percent to a fraction, you take the percent and divide it by 100. So 15% is actually 0.15.
15% = 3/20.
Expressed as a proper fraction in its simplest form, 15 percent is equal to 3/20 or three twentieths.
Take any number, multiply by 15% and you have 15% of that number. 100x15% is 15. 15 is 15% of 100.
15/16 = 0.9375 = 93.75% or 93 3/4 %