218 is 1 percent of what number?
If you take 1 percent of a number and get 218, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 1 percent of a number is 218 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 218 by 100 and then divide the total by 1 as follows: (218 x 100) / 1
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
21800
Therefore, the answer to "218 is 1 percent of what number?" is 21800, and you can also derive that 1 percent of 21800 equals 218.
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