690 is 7 percent of what number? (7% of what number is 690?)

690 is 7 percent of what number?

"690 is 7 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 7 percent of number (x), you will get 690. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "690 is 7 percent of what number (x)" like this:

7% of x = 690

To calculate 7 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 7 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		7 ∗ x
		100

= 690

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 7 to get the x = 9857.14. Therefore, the answer to 690 is 7 percent of what number? is:

9857.14

If we substitue "what number" in the question "690 is 7 percent of what number?" with 9857.14, we get this sentence: 690 is 7 percent of 9857.14. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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