Question

0.04 is 1/10of what?

Answer 1

What you should do is multiply each side by 10, like this "0.4 = 'x'"

Answer 2

In math . . .

"is" means "is equal to"
"of" means "times"

Now, watch closely:

You said that 0.04 = 1/10 times ' x '.

Multiply each side by 10 : 0.4 = 'x'