Question

(a) 22 is 55% of what?(b) What percent of 56 is 42?

Answer 1

a)

Given:

The objective is to find 55% of what number is 22.

Explanation:

Consider the unknown number as x.

Then, the value of x can be calculated as,

$\frac{55}{100}x=22\text{ . . . . (1)}$

On further solving the equation (1),

$\begin{gathered} x=22\times\frac{100}{55} \\ x=40 \end{gathered}$

Thus, the obtained value of x is 40.

Hence, 22 is 55% of 40.