document.write( "Question 755252: 78% of a number is 2496. What is 55% of that number \n" ); document.write( "
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78% of a number is 2496. What is 55% of that number?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "1. Look at the first sentence. It says \"78% of a number is 2496\". Now let's take x as the number. So it should look like this:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "78% * x = 2496\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Since 78% is nothing but .78, replace 78% with .78 to get:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( ".78x = 2496\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "2. The next step is to solve for x. Divide both sides by .78.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x = 2496/.78\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "3. Since the first part of the problem is now solved, it is time to move on to the next part. \"What is 55% of that number?\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "We already know that x is 3200, which is our number. So let's find 55% of 3200:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( ".55 * 3200 = 1760\r
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