"Michael is badly wounded. They say it's 60/40 in his favor"
"Michael is badly wounded. They say it's 60% in his favor"

Same meaning? 👆

If so... is 60/40 a different way to say 60%?
Like, is 50/50 another way to say 50% too?
30/70 another way to say 30% and so on?

Answers

Splashy101

8 Aug 2022

English (US)

Yea same meaning but saying 60/40 in his favor sounds better but it can be understood both ways. Saying it’s 60% in his favor does not sound that natural to me as normally saying it’s in his favor is used to specify that he is the won with the better of the two odds.
If you wanted to say the % you could say “ they say he has a 60% chance of winning%
But this seems less natural than saying the 60/40 but it’s the same meaning

Yea it’s just another way to say percents out of a hundred but is mostly used in matches or games but the 50/50 is used quite often in other situations to say it could go either way

victorgabriel22_

8 Aug 2022

Portuguese (Brazil)

@Splashy101 ooh
so does using number/number always sound more natural than using % in any situation or just in competition cases (like games)?

"He has 70/30 chance to survive the accident"

"80/20 of the people have voted 'yes'"

"10/90 of the machines have some defect"