144 is 11 percent of what number? (11% of what number is 144?)

144 is 11 percent of what number?

"144 is 11 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 11 percent of number (x), you will get 144. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "144 is 11 percent of what number (x)" like this:

11% of x = 144

To calculate 11 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 11 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		11 ∗ x
		100

= 144

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 11 to get the x = 1309.09. Therefore, the answer to 144 is 11 percent of what number? is:

1309.09

If we substitue "what number" in the question "144 is 11 percent of what number?" with 1309.09, we get this sentence: 144 is 11 percent of 1309.09. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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