What is 50% of 480?
The answer is 240.
Result Explanation
50% of 480 = 240. Fifty percent is exactly half, so you can read this as 480 ÷ 2 = 240. If you are subtracting this share as a discount, the remaining amount is 480 − 240 = 240. For a general percent-of workflow that accepts any rate, open the percent of calculator.
Quick check: compare 480 × 0.5 with (50 ÷ 100) × 480; both should equal 240. When you need the inverse (“what percent is this of that?”), reverse percentage keeps the wording straight.
How It Works
Step 1: Convert 50% to a decimal: 50 ÷ 100 = 0.5.
Step 2: Multiply the base by that decimal: 480 × 0.5 = 240.
Step 3: Because 50% is half, you can skip the decimal and halve 480 directly when mental maths is faster.
Strategy / Insight
Half splits appear everywhere: shared budgets, A/B traffic, deposit balances, and “fifty–fifty” agreements. When the question mixes money and tax or stacked offers, sanity-check with a discount calculator so order-of-operations matches the poster.
If your task is change between two numbers rather than “percent of one number”, switch to the percentage change calculator—different question, different formula than half of 480.
Common Mistakes
- Using 50 × 480 without dividing by 100—your answer inflates by two orders of magnitude.
- Reporting 240 when the prompt asked for the remainder after removing half (240 vs wording).
- Confusing “50% of 480” with “480 is 50% of what?”—the latter is a reverse-percent setup.
- Rounding half of 480 when 240 is already a whole number—unnecessary here.
Pro Tip
Ten percent of 480 is easy (move the decimal); five percent is half of that. Two chunks of 25% also build to 50%, which cross-checks halving on scratch paper or in a spreadsheet row against 240.
Examples
Even split: Two teams sharing 480 completed tickets equally assign 240 each in the fair-share sense (before practical rounding for whole people).
Half-off pricing: If a list price is £480 and the headline is “50% off”, the markdown amount is £240 (verify exclusions and VAT separately).
Time blocks: Half of 480 minutes is 240 minutes—useful when trimming long recordings or splitting a timer.
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FAQ
What is 50% of 480?
50% of 480 is 240—half of 480.
How do you calculate 50% of 480?
Divide 480 by 2, or multiply 480 by 0.5 (since 50% = 0.5).
What is 480 minus 50%?
Removing half (240) from 480 leaves 240. If the question meant “reduce 480 by 50%”, the new value is also 240.