Resizing images in Automator

I have been experimenting with Automator a little recently. I'm finding a problem with the 'Scale Image' function.
I'm using the By Percentage option. I want to reduce my image to half of its original size, so I select '50' in the box. My starting image is 800 x 400 pixels. The resulting output image is 1000 x 500 pixels. I get the same output image size if I set the By Percentage value to '20'.
While writing this post, I've tried starting a fresh workflow to replicate the problem and now it's not doing anything at all to the image size.
I've just added a 'View Results' action and (for a By Percentage value of '50') it's giving the message: 'The result of a numeric operation was too large. (-2702)'.
What gives? Has anyone any experience of a similar problem?

I am having a similar problem trying to batch resize some images that are all different sizes using the percentage option.
Says: The action Scale Images was not supplied with the required data.

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