187 is 7 percent of what number?


"187 is 7 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 7 percent of number (x), you will get 187. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "187 is 7 percent of what number (x)" like this:

7% of x = 187

To calculate 7 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 7 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

   
7 ∗ x
 
   
100
  =  187  

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 7 to get the x = 2671.43. Therefore, the answer to 187 is 7 percent of what number? is:

2671.43


If we substitue "what number" in the question "187 is 7 percent of what number?" with 2671.43, we get this sentence: 187 is 7 percent of 2671.43. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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