Question

Find the whole quantity if 5% of it is 600.

Answer 1

Hint: Assume the whole quantity to be an unknown variable and take 5% of it to be equal to 600 and then solve to get the value of x.

Complete step by step answer:
Let us consider the whole quantity which is unknown to be x.
In the question, it is given 5% of the whole quantity (x) is 600
So, we can write this as
$5\% \,of\,x = 600$
$\dfrac{5}{{100}}\, \times \,x = 600$
$\,x = \dfrac{{600 \times 100}}{5}$
$\,x = 12,000$

Therefore, we can write that 12,000 is the whole quantity.

Note: In these questions, consider the whole quantity to be equal to a variable in this question we took it to be x, using the condition we found the value of x which is the answer.