what is 70% of blank = 28
divide 28 by .7 and you have your answer...40.. simple algebra just get x(blank) by itself
percent means parts out of 10070%=70/100=7/107/10 of x=28'of' means multiply 7/10 x=28multiply both sides by 10/7 to get rid of fracitonx=40the number is 40