Question

Twenty-one is 35% of what number?

Answer 1

Answer:

60

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is sixty.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this problem, the number twenty-one represents the part.

So, let’s let x represent the unknown whole.

We can write a proportion showing that the ratio of the percent is equal to the ratio of the part to the whole.

Next, we find the cross products: thirty-five times x equals twenty-one times one hundred, and set cross products equal.

Now we can divide both sides of the equation by thirty-five.

Finally, we can simplify each side and find that the value of x is sixty.

So, twenty one is thirty-five percent of sixty.