36/72 = 50%
A value of 50% shows up in everyday situations like a store offering half off, a phone battery being halfway charged, or a team winning half its games. It means the amount is right in the middle of the whole.
To picture 36/72 quickly, imagine a pizza cut into 72 equal slices, with 36 of them set aside. That’s half the pizza, so you can also think of it as one of two equal parts.
A common mix-up is thinking that 50% always means 50 items. It means half of the total, so the number of items depends on how many there are altogether.
