500 is 1 percent of what number?
If you take 1 percent of a number and get 500, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 1 percent of a number is 500 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 500 by 100 and then divide the total by 1 as follows: (500 x 100) / 1
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
50000
Therefore, the answer to "500 is 1 percent of what number?" is 50000, and you can also derive that 1 percent of 50000 equals 500.
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