The number is 20.
What is percentage?
A percentage or percent , a relative value indicating hundredth parts of any quantity.
How to determine a number from percentage?
Convert the problem to an equation using the percentage formula: Y/P% = X. And then convert the percentage to a decimal by dividing by 100.
Let the number be x.
According to the given question.
6 is 30% of number.
⇒ 30% of x = 6
So, to find the number first we convert the given percent into a number.
⇒ \(\frac{30}{100} \times x = 6\)
\(\implies \frac{3}{10} \times x = 6\)
⇒ 3x = 60 ( multiplication property of equality)
\(\implies x = \frac{60}{3}\)
⇒ x = 20
Hence, the number is 20.
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