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What number is 25% of 0.875?

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Answer:

โ‰ˆ 0.22

Explanation:

To get the solution, we are looking for, we need to point out what we know.

1. We assume, that the number 0.875 is 100% - because it's the output value of the task.

2. We assume, that x is the value we are looking for.

3. If 0.875 is 100%, so we can write it down as 0.875=100%.

4. We know, that x is 25% of the output value, so we can write it down as x=25%.

5. Now we have two simple equations:

1) 0.875=100%

2) x=25%

where left sides of both of them have the same units, and both right sides have the same units, so we can do something like that:

0.875/x=100%/25%

6. Now we just have to solve the simple equation, and we will get the solution we are looking for.

7. Solution for what is 25% of 0.875

0.875/x=100/25

(0.875/x)*x=(100/25)*x - we multiply both sides of the equation by x

0.875=4*x - we divide both sides of the equation by (4) to get x

0.875/4=x

0.21875=x

x=0.21875

now we have:

25% of 0.875=0.21875

โ‰ˆ 22%

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