932 is 5 percent of what number? (5% of what number is 932?)

932 is 5 percent of what number?

"932 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 932. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "932 is 5 percent of what number (x)" like this:

5% of x = 932

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

= 932

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 5 to get the x = 18640. Therefore, the answer to 932 is 5 percent of what number? is:

18640

If we substitue "what number" in the question "932 is 5 percent of what number?" with 18640, we get this sentence: 932 is 5 percent of 18640. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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