70/100 = 70%
A value like 70/100, or 70%, shows up often in everyday life. For example, a student might score 70% on a test, a phone battery might be 70% charged, or a store might offer 70% of an item’s original price during a sale.
You can picture 70% as 70 shaded parts out of a group of 100 equal parts. A quick estimate is to think of it as a little less than three-quarters, since three-quarters is 75%.
A common mistake is confusing 70% with 70 percentage points or with 0.70%—they are not the same. Seventy percent means a large majority, while 0.70% is much less than one percent.
