Question

When a number is added by 30% of itself, the new number is 48 more than the original number?

Answer 1

Let the number be x.
Then, 30% of x will be 0.3x.

Again, we have
x+0.3x=x+48
0.3x=48
3x=480
x=160

Therefore, the number is 160. Hope this helps :)