What number minus 85 percent is 1000?

Answer 1

If we work this back we can see that the 1,000 = 15% of the original number.

That means that 1% = 1,000 ÷ 15, which gives 66.67

So 100% = 66.67 x 100 = 6,667

To prove what we have done we can now calculate 85% of 6,667 = 5,666.95, rounded up to 5,667.

6,667 - 5,667 = 1,000