60/75 = 80%
A value like 60/75, or 80%, might describe how many questions you got right on a quiz or how much of a project you finished. It can also show a sale discount, a battery level, or the share of people who chose an option in a survey.
To picture 80%, imagine a grid of 100 squares with 80 shaded, or a row of 10 items with about 8 marked. It’s a little more than three-quarters, so you can estimate it as close to four out of five.
One common mix-up is treating 80% as 80 out of 75, rather than as a portion of the whole amount. The denominator, 75, is the total number of parts in this fraction, so the value describes 60 of those 75 parts.
