740 is 12 percent of what number?


"740 is 12 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 12 percent of number (x), you will get 740. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "740 is 12 percent of what number (x)" like this:

12% of x = 740

To calculate 12 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 12 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

   
12 ∗ x
 
   
100
  =  740  

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 12 to get the x = 6166.67. Therefore, the answer to 740 is 12 percent of what number? is:

6166.67


If we substitue "what number" in the question "740 is 12 percent of what number?" with 6166.67, we get this sentence: 740 is 12 percent of 6166.67. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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