If you translate this problem literally, it is saying, “72 is what percent of 288?”. And the equational translation of that is 72 = (x/100) • 288 [ “is” means equal to (=) // “what” means x or another variable // “percent” means divided by 100” // “of” means multiplication. ] Then you solve that equation. (you can check it by googling what is 25% of 288. )