948 is 28 percent of what number?


"948 is 28 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 28 percent of number (x), you will get 948. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "948 is 28 percent of what number (x)" like this:

28% of x = 948

To calculate 28 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 28 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

   
28 ∗ x
 
   
100
  =  948  

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 28 to get the x = 3385.71. Therefore, the answer to 948 is 28 percent of what number? is:

3385.71


If we substitue "what number" in the question "948 is 28 percent of what number?" with 3385.71, we get this sentence: 948 is 28 percent of 3385.71. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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