The answer would be 86 because to find the answer you would do 37.84 divided by 44% to find out what the original number is. An easy way to check if it came out right is to see that the answer is larger than the original. In this case it would be 37.84 and 86 is definitely bigger than 37.84. You can also check your work to see if it fits by multiplying 86 by .44 which would come out as 37.84