swer the following questions. \( \begin{array}{ll}\text { (a) } 39 \text { is } 65 \% \text { of what number? } & \square \\ \text { (b) What is } 35 \% \text { of } 40 \text { ? }\end{array} \)

1. For part (a): We have that \(39\) is \(65\%\) of a number \(x\). This can be written as: \[ 39 = 0.65x \] To solve for \(x\), we divide both sides by \(0.65\): \[ x = \frac{39}{0.65} = 60 \] 2. For part (b): We need to calculate \(35\%\) of \(40\). This can be written as: \[ 0.35 \times 40 \] Multiplying, we get: \[ 0.35 \times 40 = 14 \]