SOLUTION: use the five step strategy for solving word problems to find the number. 80% of which number is 224?

Question 1199555: use the five step strategy for solving word problems to find the number.
80% of which number is 224?
Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, greenestamps, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What five steps?

n, which number

Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

I don't know what the reference you are using calls "the five step strategy"....

Maybe something like this:

(1) Define a variable
Let x be the number we are looking for.

80% is 0.80 or 4/5.

(2) Write the equation that says 80% of the number is 224.

(3) Solve the equation: multiply both sides of the equation by the reciprocal of 4/5.

(4) Answer the question.
80% of 280 is 224.

That's 4 steps; perhaps your five step strategy uses two separate steps to do one of the four I used.

Answer by ikleyn(52797)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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For your info and education:

        It is called " five strategy for solving word problems " - - - not " five step strategy " . . .

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