Because 02:30 is 2 hours and 30 minutes.
To XL 1 hour is the same as 1/24 ( 0.10416667). To convert back to decimal you have to multiply by 24, which gives 2.5 (eventually format as number)

To get 25 % try =A5*24/10

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