42 is 5 percent of what number?


"42 is 5 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 5 percent of number (x), you will get 42. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "42 is 5 percent of what number (x)" like this:

5% of x = 42

To calculate 5 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 5 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

   
5 ∗ x
 
   
100
  =  42  

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 5 to get the x = 840. Therefore, the answer to 42 is 5 percent of what number? is:

840


If we substitue "what number" in the question "42 is 5 percent of what number?" with 840, we get this sentence: 42 is 5 percent of 840. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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