303 is 21 percent of what number?


"303 is 21 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 21 percent of number (x), you will get 303. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "303 is 21 percent of what number (x)" like this:

21% of x = 303

To calculate 21 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 21 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

   
21 ∗ x
 
   
100
  =  303  

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 21 to get the x = 1442.86. Therefore, the answer to 303 is 21 percent of what number? is:

1442.86


If we substitue "what number" in the question "303 is 21 percent of what number?" with 1442.86, we get this sentence: 303 is 21 percent of 1442.86. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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