Answer: x = 110
Step-by-step explanation: Well percent means over 100 so we can set up an equation for this problem by reading it from left to right.
What means x, is means equals, 125% is 125/100, of means times, 250.
So we have the equation [tex]x = \frac{125}{100} (88)[/tex].
Simplifying on the right side of the equation, notice that 125/100 reduces to 5/4 so we have x = 5/4 · 88.
Think of the 88 as 88/1.
So we can cross cancel the 88 and 4 to 22 and 1.
So we have x = 5 · 22 over 1 · 1 or x = 110.
