7% of what number is 14

Step by step

The question

Question: 14 is 7% of what number?

We write it like this: 7% of the number is 14.

14 is a part.

The whole number is what we want.

Careful!

Many people work out 7% of 14.

But 14 is not the whole.

It is only 7% of it.

1 Find 1%

7% is 7 lots of 1%.

So we find 1% first.

1% is 14 divided by 7: 2.

2 Find 100%

The whole number is 100%: 100 lots of 1%.

2 times 100 is 200.

So 14 is 7% of 200.

3 Check

Let's check: is 7% of 200 really 14?

7% is 7/100.

Of means times.

200 divided by 100 is 2.

7 times 2 is 14.

We get 14.

So it is right!

Let's look back.

First: find 1%.

Then: find 100%.

Last: check.