243 is 10 percent of what number? (10% of what number is 243?)

243 is 10 percent of what number?

"243 is 10 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 10 percent of number (x), you will get 243. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "243 is 10 percent of what number (x)" like this:

10% of x = 243

To calculate 10 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 10 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		10 ∗ x
		100

= 243

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 10 to get the x = 2430. Therefore, the answer to 243 is 10 percent of what number? is:

2430

If we substitue "what number" in the question "243 is 10 percent of what number?" with 2430, we get this sentence: 243 is 10 percent of 2430. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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