SOLUTION: ben goes on a diet & changes her lifestyle. she loses 32% of her body weight. now she weighs 57.8 kg. what was her original weight

Question 699577: ben goes on a diet & changes her lifestyle. she loses 32% of her body weight. now she weighs 57.8 kg. what was her original weight
Answer by Simnepi(216) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
since she has lost 32% of her body weight, she has 68% of it left!
This 68% is equal to 57.8kg.
Now we want to find out what 1% of her body weight is.
if we divide by 68 we will find 1%.

Since this is 1%, if we multiply by 100 we will find 100%!

So Ben originally weighed 85kg.
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