84 is 5 percent of what number? (5% of what number is 84?)

84 is 5 percent of what number?

"84 is 5 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 5 percent of number (x), you will get 84. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "84 is 5 percent of what number (x)" like this:

5% of x = 84

To calculate 5 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 5 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		5 ∗ x
		100

= 84

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 5 to get the x = 1680. Therefore, the answer to 84 is 5 percent of what number? is:

1680

If we substitue "what number" in the question "84 is 5 percent of what number?" with 1680, we get this sentence: 84 is 5 percent of 1680. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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