38 is 40% of what number?
1 Answer
May 21, 2018
95
Explanation:
A percentage is found by taking the smaller number divided by the larger number times 100. Using this concept when can set up our equation.
Now we can solve for x. First, we do this by dividing 100 to both sides of the equation, giving us:
The next step is to rearrange our equation to get x by itself. To do this we have to time x to both sides of the equation, giving us:
We can now divide both side by 0.4 to give us our final answer: