8 is 7 percent of what number? (7% of what number is 8?)

8 is 7 percent of what number?

"8 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 8. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "8 is 7 percent of what number (x)" like this:

7% of x = 8

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

= 8

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 7 to get the x = 114.29. Therefore, the answer to 8 is 7 percent of what number? is:

114.29

If we substitue "what number" in the question "8 is 7 percent of what number?" with 114.29, we get this sentence: 8 is 7 percent of 114.29. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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