Question

Im doing something called percent eqaution. The problem says "96.1 is 39 percent of what?" Can I get an explanation for the way Im supposed to be doing it. Thanks

Answer 1

246.41 (approximately)

1) If 96.1 is 39% of something, we can call it by "x". And then write out the following equation:

`0.39x=96.1`

Note that we need to rewrite that percentage as a decimal number.

2) So, solving that for x, we can find out the original number:

`\begin{gathered} 0.39x=96.1 \\ (0.39x)/(0.39)=(96.1)/(0.39) \\ x=246.41 \end{gathered}`

Note that we had to round it off to the nearest hundredth.

3) Thus, we can state that 96.1 is 39% of 246.41 (approximately)