There are at least two ways to approach this.
Option 1: Translate the question into an equation.
You're basically asking "152000 is 95% of what number."
We can translate this into "152000 = 0.95 · x" by translating "is" as "equals" and "of" into multiplication.
We can solve this by dividing both sides by 0.95 to find x=160000.
Option 2: Set up a proportion:
152000 compared to x is equal to 95 compared to 100.
Cross multiplying we'd get
152000 · 100 = 95 · x
and we can divide by 95 to find
160000 = x
Either way we get the same answer. The approach you use will depend on what you're doing in class and which approach makes more sense to you.