372 is 17 percent of what number?


"372 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 372. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "372 is 17 percent of what number (x)" like this:

17% of x = 372

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
  =  372  

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 17 to get the x = 2188.24. Therefore, the answer to 372 is 17 percent of what number? is:

2188.24


If we substitue "what number" in the question "372 is 17 percent of what number?" with 2188.24, we get this sentence: 372 is 17 percent of 2188.24. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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