422 is 26 percent of what number? (26% of what number is 422?)

422 is 26 percent of what number?

"422 is 26 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 26 percent of number (x), you will get 422. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "422 is 26 percent of what number (x)" like this:

26% of x = 422

To calculate 26 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 26 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		26 ∗ x
		100

= 422

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 26 to get the x = 1623.08. Therefore, the answer to 422 is 26 percent of what number? is:

1623.08

If we substitue "what number" in the question "422 is 26 percent of what number?" with 1623.08, we get this sentence: 422 is 26 percent of 1623.08. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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