Question

Identify the percent, amount, and base in this problem: 30% of what number is 75?

Answer 1

your answer is 250...

Answer 2

To find percentage, you move the decimal to the left twice on the percentage, then multiply by your number. However, we are not finding 30% of 75. 75 IS the percentage. So, what we know is:

x * .30 = 75

We can do the reverse of multiplication to solve this:

75 ÷ .3 = 250

30% of 250 is 75.