137 is 13 percent of what number? (13% of what number is 137?)

137 is 13 percent of what number?

"137 is 13 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 13 percent of number (x), you will get 137. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "137 is 13 percent of what number (x)" like this:

13% of x = 137

To calculate 13 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 13 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		13 ∗ x
		100

= 137

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 13 to get the x = 1053.85. Therefore, the answer to 137 is 13 percent of what number? is:

1053.85

If we substitue "what number" in the question "137 is 13 percent of what number?" with 1053.85, we get this sentence: 137 is 13 percent of 1053.85. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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