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3) 3,000 is 0.5% of what?​

3) 3,000 is 0.5% of what?​-example-1
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6,000. Why? Because 0.5 is the same as 1/2, so if we know that 3,000 is 1/2 of something, there should be 1 whole. So, multiplying 3,000 by two, because we’re supposed to have 2 halves (equaling 1 whole), we’d get 6,000. Hope that helped
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Step-by-step explanation: set up a proportion first, .5/100 3000/x, cross multiply and divide. Your answer will be 600000

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