Imagine you have a pizza sliced into 100 tiny pieces. Each piece is a percent. If you eat one piece, you’ve eaten 1 percent of the pizza. It’s like having 100 little friends, and each one is a percent. If 50 of them come to your party, that’s 50 percent of your friends!
Think of a big jar of 100 marbles. If 25 marbles are red, then 25 percent of the marbles are red. It’s like having a treasure chest and saying, ‘25 out of every 100 jewels are shiny red.’
Imagine a garden with 100 flowers. If 10 flowers are blue, then 10 percent of the flowers are blue. It’s like saying, ‘Out of every 100 flowers, 10 are special blue ones.’
Picture a classroom with 100 students, and 30 are wearing hats. That means 30 percent of the students are wearing hats. It’s like saying, ‘For every 100 kids, 30 love wearing hats!’
Think of a chocolate bar split into 100 little squares. If you eat 20 squares, you’ve eaten 20 percent of the chocolate bar. It’s like saying, ‘I enjoyed 20 out of 100 sweet pieces!’