Writing equations to find percents

It's simply the inverse 147 / .14 = 1050

Are you familiar with equivalent ratios? You could set your number that is greater than 100 up as the numerator and solve for the denominator that is equivalent to the percent as a fraction. For example:

147/x = 14/100

now, solve for x that makes the two ratios (fractions) equal. To do that you cross multiply 14x=14700 and then solve for x=14700/14=1050.

Let's see if this makes sense...

you want some number x that equals 147 when multiplied by .14

147/0.14=1050 and 1050 times 0.14 = 147

14% = .14

"of" means times

147 = .14 of (X)

divide both sides by .14 and you get 1050

Yes, that's how I solve it:

147 = .14 * X

147 / .14 = (.14 * X) / .14

147 / .14 = X

1050 = X

Thus, 14% of 1050 is 147.

Use a calculator and divide 4 by 10.
And you get 0.4 which when you move the decimal to the right you get that 4 is 40% of 10.

But, it sounds like the original poster needed to write an equation to find the percentage. Same answer, different process.

Yep. This year in Algebra 1 I'm so suprised at how much we're allowed to use calculators. Best invention yet!