53 is 37 percent of what number? (37% of what number is 53?)

53 is 37 percent of what number?

"53 is 37 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 37 percent of number (x), you will get 53. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "53 is 37 percent of what number (x)" like this:

37% of x = 53

To calculate 37 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 37 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		37 ∗ x
		100

= 53

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 37 to get the x = 143.24. Therefore, the answer to 53 is 37 percent of what number? is:

143.24

If we substitue "what number" in the question "53 is 37 percent of what number?" with 143.24, we get this sentence: 53 is 37 percent of 143.24. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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