48/60 = 80%
A value of 80% might show up as a quiz score, a phone battery level, or the amount of a task that’s finished. It tells you that most of the whole is there, but some is still missing.
To picture 80%, imagine a row of 10 equal boxes with 8 shaded in. It’s close to the whole, but you can still spot the unshaded fifth.
A common mix-up is thinking that 80% means 80 out of 100 items every time. It describes a share of a whole, so the actual number of items depends on how large that whole is.
