60/75 = 80%
A fraction like 60/75 can show up when 60 out of 75 students turn in a permission form, or when a store has sold 60 of 75 available tickets. In either case, that means 80% of the total is accounted for.
To picture 60/75 quickly, imagine a group of 75 objects with about four out of every five marked or completed. Since 80% is close to the whole amount but not quite all of it, you can estimate it as roughly eight-tenths.
A common mistake is thinking that 60/75 is only a little more than half because the numbers look large and different. The important point is the relationship between the two numbers: 60 is four-fifths of 75, leaving 15 items, or about one-fifth, still left.
