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40,000 Is 25% Percent of What Number? 25% Percent of What Number Is 40,000? Find Missing Number

40,000 is 25% percent of what value? 25% of what number equals 40,000? How to find the missing number

Number calculation, finding the missing unknown number (Percentage of) 25% of what number = 40,000?

• A percentage value is nothing but a fraction with a denominator of 100:
• 25% = 25/100 = 25 ÷ 100 = 0.25
• ...
• Let Y be the number that we have to calculate:
• To calculate a percentage of 25% of the number Y is equivalent to multiplying them:
• 25% of Y = 25% × Y
• ...
• We put all the information together and then calculate the number Y:
• 25% × Y = 40,000 ⇒ Y = 40,000 ÷ 25%
• ...
• If necessary, the result of the calculation is rounded off to twelve and / or two decimal places.

Detailed calculations below:

25% of Y = 40,000 ⇔

25% × Y = 40,000 ⇒

Y =

40,000 ÷ 25% =

40,000 ÷ (25 ÷ 100) =

40,000 × (100 ÷ 25) =

(100 × 40,000) ÷ 25 =

4,000,000 ÷ 25 =

= 160,000

40,000 is 25% percent of what number? (Percentage of) 25% of what number is 40,000? 40,000 = 25% of 160,000 25% of 160,000 = 40,000

The symbols used: % percent, ÷ division, × multiplication, = the equal sign, / the fraction bar, ≈ approximately the same. Writing numbers: comma ',' - as a thousands separator, point '.' as a decimal mark.

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Three examples of problems that can be solved out using the information in this section:

• Problem 1:

• 25% of the annual profit of a company was invested in buying some new equipment. The total amount invested in buying the new equipment was 100,000 dollars. What was the annual profit of the company?
• Rewrite: 25% of the Profit means 100,000 dollars => 25% × Profit = 100,000 dollars => Profit = 100,000 ÷ 25% dollars = 100,000 ÷ 25/100 dollars = 100,000 × 100/25 dollars = 100,000 × 4 dollars = 400,000 dollars;

• Problem 2:

• A number of 20% of the students in the terminal year have enrolled into the swimming class. In total, 7 students have enrolled. How many students are in the terminal year?
• Rewrite: 20% of the students means 7 students => 20% × Total number of students = 7 => The total number of students = 7 ÷ 20% = 7 ÷ 20/100 = 7 × 100/20 = 7 × 5 = 35;

• Problem 3:

• In the last elections 49% of community memebrs voted for the A Party, 32% for the B Party, and the rest for the C Party. 17,920 people voted for the B Party. How many members are in the community, all in all?
• Rewrite: 32% of the total community members means 17,920 people => 32% × The total number of community members = 17,920 => The total number of community members = 17,920 ÷ 32% people = 17,920 ÷ 32/100 people = 17,920 × 100/32 people = 17,920/32 × 100 = 560 × 100 people = 56,000 people.