87 is 5 percent of what number? (5% of what number is 87?)

87 is 5 percent of what number?

"87 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 87. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "87 is 5 percent of what number (x)" like this:

5% of x = 87

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

= 87

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 5 to get the x = 1740. Therefore, the answer to 87 is 5 percent of what number? is:

1740

If we substitue "what number" in the question "87 is 5 percent of what number?" with 1740, we get this sentence: 87 is 5 percent of 1740. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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