198 is 7 percent of what number?


"198 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 198. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "198 is 7 percent of what number (x)" like this:

7% of x = 198

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
  =  198  

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 7 to get the x = 2828.57. Therefore, the answer to 198 is 7 percent of what number? is:

2828.57


If we substitue "what number" in the question "198 is 7 percent of what number?" with 2828.57, we get this sentence: 198 is 7 percent of 2828.57. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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