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3/4 of a number is 30. What is the number? )) What is the number?

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To find the number we can create the following equation and solve for x:


(3)/(4)\cdot x=30

Let x be the missing number, use inverse operations to solve the equation:


\begin{gathered} x=30\cdot(4)/(3) \\ x=(120)/(3) \\ x=40 \end{gathered}

The number is 40.

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