429 is 8 percent of what number? (8% of what number is 429?)

429 is 8 percent of what number?

"429 is 8 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 8 percent of number (x), you will get 429. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "429 is 8 percent of what number (x)" like this:

8% of x = 429

To calculate 8 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 8 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		8 ∗ x
		100

= 429

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 8 to get the x = 5362.5. Therefore, the answer to 429 is 8 percent of what number? is:

5362.5

If we substitue "what number" in the question "429 is 8 percent of what number?" with 5362.5, we get this sentence: 429 is 8 percent of 5362.5. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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