98 is 1 percent of what number?
If you take 1 percent of a number and get 98, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 1 percent of a number is 98 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 98 by 100 and then divide the total by 1 as follows: (98 x 100) / 1
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
9800
Therefore, the answer to "98 is 1 percent of what number?" is 9800, and you can also derive that 1 percent of 9800 equals 98.
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