79 is 1 percent of what number?
If you take 1 percent of a number and get 79, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 1 percent of a number is 79 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 79 by 100 and then divide the total by 1 as follows: (79 x 100) / 1
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
7900
Therefore, the answer to "79 is 1 percent of what number?" is 7900, and you can also derive that 1 percent of 7900 equals 79.
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