15 is 26 percent of what number?


"15 is 26 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 26 percent of number (x), you will get 15. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "15 is 26 percent of what number (x)" like this:

26% of x = 15

To calculate 26 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 26 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

   
26 ∗ x
 
   
100
  =  15  

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 26 to get the x = 57.69. Therefore, the answer to 15 is 26 percent of what number? is:

57.69


If we substitue "what number" in the question "15 is 26 percent of what number?" with 57.69, we get this sentence: 15 is 26 percent of 57.69. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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