255 is 17 percent of what number? (17% of what number is 255?)

255 is 17 percent of what number?

"255 is 17 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 17 percent of number (x), you will get 255. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "255 is 17 percent of what number (x)" like this:

17% of x = 255

To calculate 17 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 17 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		17 ∗ x
		100

= 255

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 17 to get the x = 1500. Therefore, the answer to 255 is 17 percent of what number? is:

1500

If we substitue "what number" in the question "255 is 17 percent of what number?" with 1500, we get this sentence: 255 is 17 percent of 1500. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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