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If you take 1 percent of a number and get 987, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 1 percent of a number is 987 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 987 by 100 and then divide the total by 1 as follows: (987 x 100) / 1

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

98700


Therefore, the answer to "987 is 1 percent of what number?" is 98700, and you can also derive that 1 percent of 98700 equals 987.

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