40 times what equals 10?

40 times what equals 10? In other words, what do you multiply by 40 to get 10? If "x" is "what" in the sentence, "40 times what equals 10?", then the equation to solve the problem is as follows:

40 • x = 10

Which can be written as:

40x = 10

To solve the equation above, we need to remove the 40 on the left side to make the x alone. To do that, we divide both sides by 40.

40x/40 = 10/40

40x/40 is x and 10/40 is 0.25 which means our equation will look like this:

x = 0.25

Thus, the answer to "40 times what equals 10?" is 0.25.

To double-check our work, multiply 0.25 by 40 to see that it equals 10. (Note that our answer on this page is rounded to 4 digits if necessary.)

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