Question

Billy watched the clown car drive up to the circus and saw 141414 clowns get out of one little car. The clowns made up 56\%56%56, percent of the performers in the circus.

How many performers were in the circus?

Answer 1

141,414 = 56% of P

Divide each side by 56% :

P = 141,414 / 0.56 = 252,525 performers.