379 is 7 percent of what number? (7% of what number is 379?)

379 is 7 percent of what number?

"379 is 7 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 7 percent of number (x), you will get 379. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "379 is 7 percent of what number (x)" like this:

7% of x = 379

To calculate 7 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 7 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		7 ∗ x
		100

= 379

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 7 to get the x = 5414.29. Therefore, the answer to 379 is 7 percent of what number? is:

5414.29

If we substitue "what number" in the question "379 is 7 percent of what number?" with 5414.29, we get this sentence: 379 is 7 percent of 5414.29. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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