Question

What percentage of the mile times range from 7.25 to 9.375?

Answer 1

1. We assume, that the number 9.375 is 100% - because it's the output value of the task.

2. We assume, that x is the value we are looking for.

3. If 9.375 is 100%, so we can write it down as 9.375=100%.

4. We know, that x is 7.25% of the output value, so we can write it down as x=7.25%.

5. Now we have two simple equations:

1) 9.375=100%

2) x=7.25%

where left sides of both of them have the same units, and both right sides have the same units, so we can do something like that:

9.375/x=100%/7.25%

6. Now we just have to solve the simple equation, and we will get the solution we are looking for.

7. Solution for what is 7.25% of 9.375

9.375/x=100/7.25

(9.375/x)*x=(100/7.25)*x       - we multiply both sides of the equation by x

9.375=13.793103448276*x       - we divide both sides of the equation by (13.793103448276) to get x

9.375/13.793103448276=x

0.6796875=x

x=0.6796875

now we have:

7.25% of 9.375=0.6796875