494 is 15 percent of what number? (15% of what number is 494?)

494 is 15 percent of what number?

"494 is 15 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 15 percent of number (x), you will get 494. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "494 is 15 percent of what number (x)" like this:

15% of x = 494

To calculate 15 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 15 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		15 ∗ x
		100

= 494

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 15 to get the x = 3293.33. Therefore, the answer to 494 is 15 percent of what number? is:

3293.33

If we substitue "what number" in the question "494 is 15 percent of what number?" with 3293.33, we get this sentence: 494 is 15 percent of 3293.33. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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