142 is 23 percent of what number? (23% of what number is 142?)

142 is 23 percent of what number?

"142 is 23 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 23 percent of number (x), you will get 142. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "142 is 23 percent of what number (x)" like this:

23% of x = 142

To calculate 23 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 23 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		23 ∗ x
		100

= 142

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 23 to get the x = 617.39. Therefore, the answer to 142 is 23 percent of what number? is:

617.39

If we substitue "what number" in the question "142 is 23 percent of what number?" with 617.39, we get this sentence: 142 is 23 percent of 617.39. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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