SOLUTION: If the percent of increase is 16% and the new number is 522, how do we find the original number?

Question 349816: If the percent of increase is 16% and the new number is 522, how do we find the original number?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x = the original number.

If you have a 16% increase, then you're basically adding 16% of that original number to the original number.

In other words: 16% increase of some number = Some number + 16% of same number

Symbolically, this means that . Because we know that the new number is 522, we know that

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