21 is what percent of 2? (What percent of 2 is 21?)

21 is what percent of 2?

The question here is "21 is what percent of 2?" which is the same as "What percent of 2 is 21?" This math word problem is asking "what percent" so we know that the answer should be a percent. Specifically, what percent (x) of 2 equals 21.

The problem is therefore x% of 2 = 21 which can be written as a function:

		x ∗ 2
		100

= 21

And when we solve the function above for x, we get 1050. The answer to "21 is what percent of 2?" is therefore:

1050%

How can we know the answer is correct? We know the answer is correct because 1050 percent of 2 is 21.

What Percent Calculator
Here you can calculate a similar problem:

21 is what percent of 3?
Go here for the next word problem that we solved.