5 is 13 percent of what number? (13% of what number is 5?)

5 is 13 percent of what number?

"5 is 13 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 13 percent of number (x), you will get 5. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "5 is 13 percent of what number (x)" like this:

13% of x = 5

To calculate 13 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 13 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		13 ∗ x
		100

= 5

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 13 to get the x = 38.46. Therefore, the answer to 5 is 13 percent of what number? is:

38.46

If we substitue "what number" in the question "5 is 13 percent of what number?" with 38.46, we get this sentence: 5 is 13 percent of 38.46. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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