Question

34 is 50% of what number?

Answer 1

In other words, you know that 50 percent of a number is 34 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 34 by 100 and then divide the total by 50 as follows:

(34 x 100) / 50

When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:

68