897 is 1 percent of what number?
If you take 1 percent of a number and get 897, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 1 percent of a number is 897 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 897 by 100 and then divide the total by 1 as follows: (897 x 100) / 1
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
89700
Therefore, the answer to "897 is 1 percent of what number?" is 89700, and you can also derive that 1 percent of 89700 equals 897.
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