40 times what equals 27?

40 times what equals 27? In other words, what do you multiply by 40 to get 27? If "x" is "what" in the sentence, "40 times what equals 27?", then the equation to solve the problem is as follows:

40 • x = 27

Which can be written as:

40x = 27

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 = 27/40

40x/40 is x and 27/40 is 0.675 which means our equation will look like this:

x = 0.675

Thus, the answer to "40 times what equals 27?" is 0.675.

To double-check our work, multiply 0.675 by 40 to see that it equals 27. (Note that our answer on this page is rounded to 4 digits if necessary.)

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