470 is 11 percent of what number? (11% of what number is 470?)

470 is 11 percent of what number?

"470 is 11 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 11 percent of number (x), you will get 470. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "470 is 11 percent of what number (x)" like this:

11% of x = 470

To calculate 11 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 11 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		11 ∗ x
		100

= 470

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 11 to get the x = 4272.73. Therefore, the answer to 470 is 11 percent of what number? is:

4272.73

If we substitue "what number" in the question "470 is 11 percent of what number?" with 4272.73, we get this sentence: 470 is 11 percent of 4272.73. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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