Question

6% of what number is 3.6?

Answer 1

6% is the same as .06

In word problems, "of" means "times".

Lets use algebra to find the answer:

\[.06 \times x= 3.6\]
Now, we want to know what x is, so we divide both sides by .06.

We then get

\[x=\frac{ 3 .6}{.06 }=60\]

If we check our answer, we find that 60% of 60 is in fact 3.6 !

Answer 2

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