350 is 10 percent of what number? (10% of what number is 350?)

350 is 10 percent of what number?

"350 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 350. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "350 is 10 percent of what number (x)" like this:

10% of x = 350

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

= 350

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 10 to get the x = 3500. Therefore, the answer to 350 is 10 percent of what number? is:

3500

If we substitue "what number" in the question "350 is 10 percent of what number?" with 3500, we get this sentence: 350 is 10 percent of 3500. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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