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What is 25% of ?

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Solve for in the equation

by isolating on the left side. Do this by reversing the operations in the reverse of the order of operations.

First, subtract 17 from both sides:

Now, divide both sides by 2:

$2x \div 2 = 82 \div 2$

One way to find 25% of this value is to multiply 41 by 25 and divide by 100:

$\frac{41 \times 25}{100} = \frac{1,025}{100} = 10.25$ ,

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