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If you take 1 percent of a number and get 420, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 1 percent of a number is 420 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 420 by 100 and then divide the total by 1 as follows: (420 x 100) / 1

When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:

42000


Therefore, the answer to "420 is 1 percent of what number?" is 42000, and you can also derive that 1 percent of 42000 equals 420.

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