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If 52 is 130% of a number,is the number greater or less than 52?

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Christy · EZ as pi

Apr 24, 2018

Less

Explanation:

It would be, if you set up a proportion, it would be:

$\frac{52}{x} = \frac{130}{100} \frac{\leftarrow bigger}{\leftarrow smaller}$ $52/x = 130/100" "(larr " bigger")/(larr"smaller")$

You have to multiply: $52 \times 100$ $52 xx 100$ and divide the product by $130$ $130$ to get $x$ $x$ ,

$x = \frac{52 \times 100}{130}$ $x = (52xx100)/130$

Once you’ve worked that out, you’ll see that it is less.

Hope this helped :)

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