Question

75.0% of what number is equal to 60.0% of 25.0

Answer 1

So lets make x, the unknown number.

Percent means out of a hundred.

so 75% is initially 75 out of a hundred or otherwise seen as 75/100 or 0.75.

So 0.75x is one part of the equation.
Whilst we also have to find that same number regularly to 60% or 0.6 of 25.

0.6 (25) = 15.

0.75x = 15

Solve normally

Divide 0.75 on both sides and you’d get

20.

x=20

So the number is 20