420 is 28 percent of what number? (28% of what number is 420?)

420 is 28 percent of what number?

"420 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 420. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "420 is 28 percent of what number (x)" like this:

28% of x = 420

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

= 420

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 28 to get the x = 1500. Therefore, the answer to 420 is 28 percent of what number? is:

1500

If we substitue "what number" in the question "420 is 28 percent of what number?" with 1500, we get this sentence: 420 is 28 percent of 1500. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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