SOLUTION: 21 is 60% of what number, can you also show me how to work it and set it up, thanks
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Question 700269: 21 is 60% of what number, can you also show me how to work it and set it up, thanks
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
is 
percent of what number?
Let 
be the number you are trying to find. Take and move the decimal point two places to the left and then drop the % sign -- call this decimal representation of the percentage 
.
Then
Solve for
Plug in your numbers and do the arithmetic.
John
Egw to Beta kai to Sigma
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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