Question

What is 70% of 40,000.

Answer 1

Answer:

28000

Step-by-step explanation:

70% of 40,000 is 28000.

28,000/40,000 = 70%

40000=100%

x=70%

40000/x=100%/70%

Answer 2

Answer:

x = 28,000

Step-by-step explanation:

"What" is our unknown, x; "is" is an equals sign; 70% expressed as a decimal is .70; "of" means to muliply.

Our equation, then, is

x = .70(40,000) so

x = 28,000