389 is 28 percent of what number? (28% of what number is 389?)

389 is 28 percent of what number?

"389 is 28 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 28 percent of number (x), you will get 389. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "389 is 28 percent of what number (x)" like this:

28% of x = 389

To calculate 28 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 28 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		28 ∗ x
		100

= 389

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 28 to get the x = 1389.29. Therefore, the answer to 389 is 28 percent of what number? is:

1389.29

If we substitue "what number" in the question "389 is 28 percent of what number?" with 1389.29, we get this sentence: 389 is 28 percent of 1389.29. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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